Mr. Deeds
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Mr Deeds
Directed by	Steven Brill
Produced by	Sid Ganis Jack Giarraputo
Written by	Tim Herlihy based on a story by Clarence Budington Kelland
Starring	Adam Sandler Winona Ryder John Turturro Peter Gallagher Jared Harris Allen Covert Erick Avari
Music by	Teddy Castellucci
Cinematography	Peter Lyons Collister
Editing by	Jeff Gourson
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	June 28, 2002
Running time	96 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$50,000,000 (estimated)
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Mr. Deeds is a 2002 comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder, and is a remake of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The movie also features Peter Gallagher, John Turturro and Steve Buscemi, with small roles by John McEnroe and Al Sharpton and a brief, uncredited appearance by Rob Schneider.

The film was distributed by both Columbia Pictures and New Line Cinema.

Plot

Preston Blake started out in his career hoping to be a television broadcaster as a young man, slowly working his way up through the ranks to found Blake Media, a corporation running hundreds of television and radio stations and with tens of thousands of employees. After Blake freezes to death at the summit of Mount Everest with a triumphant smile on his face, a search for his heir begins. When it is found that he has a living nephew named Longfellow Deeds who runs a pizzeria in New Hampshire, Deeds is contacted and brought to New York City by oily attorney Chuck Cedar (Peter Gallagher).

Plans are made for Deeds to sell his shares in the company to Cedar and return home $40 billion richer, but he must remain in New York for a few days as all the legal details are worked out.

The story is major news, and reporter Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), who works for a tabloid show called Inside Access, has a friend pretend to steal her purse in sight of Deeds. Deeds "rescues" her and she continues to go out with him under the disguise of Pam Dawson, a school nurse from Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa (a town she made up on the spot when asked where she was from, which later turns out to be real). Though Babe/Pam initially hopes to just get a good story on the new heir, she eventually falls for the unfailingly kind-hearted Deeds, and decides to tell him that she's not who she says she is, but Inside Access reveals it to Deeds first. Heartbroken, Deeds decides to return home to Mandrake Falls after giving all the money he inherits to the United Negro College Fund, a move which could cost all his employees their jobs.

Babe visits Deeds in Mandrake Falls and tries to win him back. He rejects her saying he doesn't really know who she is.

At a shareholders meeting, Cedar has everyone convinced to sell the company, until Deeds (who has bought a single share) arrives and manages to convince everyone to not sell. But Cedar has control of a majority of the shares and the sale is approved. Babe arrives then, and reveals that Blake's butler, Emilio (John Turturro), is Preston Blake's illegitimate son, Deeds' older cousin, and the true heir, as his mother, then Preston's housekeeper, had a one-night stand with him, presumably resulting in their son's birth. This makes sense, as Emilio mentions that his mother died while giving birth, and Preston never mentioned about his real father during the forty years he lived there.

As Emilio is the true heir, Deeds' sale of his shares to Cedar is not legal. Emilio immediately takes control and fires Cedar, among others. Babe reveals herself to Deeds and apologizes for tricking him, and they reconcile. As they're leaving, Emilio gives Deeds a billion dollars, some of which Deeds spends on buying his friends a few dozen Corvettes, and he returns to Mandrake Falls with Babe, where he learns that Hallmark Cards has bought one of his cards, the one he wrote for Babe.

Cast

Box office

Trivia

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References to To Kill a Mockingbird

Throughout the movie, Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), a reporter concealing her identity as Pam Dawson from the small town of Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa, borrows descriptions and characters from the 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. At one point she claims to have fallen down "Boo Radley's apple tree" and broken her arm when she was a child (referring to Jem breaking his arm in the novel and being carried home by Boo Radley. It also refers to Atticus Finch telling Jem that he'll fall off the tree house and break his arm.). Arthur "Boo" Radley is a character in To Kill a Mockingbird. Later in the movie, while entering a house that is not really hers, she refers to a lady she really doesn't know and her dog as "Mrs. Finch, Atticus", in order to convince Deeds that she lives there. Atticus Finch is also a character in To Kill a Mockingbird.

References to other Sandler movies

• Nazo from Big Daddy appears twice in the movie. Once catching a cat in his delivery bike and then exclaiming, "Holy shit! It's a cat!", he also appears in the end reciting Deeds' Hallmark Card and then being bitten by the cat who he rescued earlier in the movie.

Other Related Movies

• The movie is a remake of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) with Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur

• The film loosely follows the main plot to the 1994 Coen brother film The Hudsucker Proxy in which a female reporter tries to discover the plot behind the new company president and ends up falling for him. The film also stars cameo appearances from Peter Gallagher and Steve Buscemi.

Other Movies

• At a certain point in the movie, Longfellow Deeds says that one day, Stephen King visited his home town and pointed at the big fat man that ran the gas station, the next day, the man who ran the gas station had lost 200 pounds. This is a reference to the film, Thinner a movie based on a Stephen King novel of the same name.

External links

• Boxoffice information
• Mr. Deeds at the Internet Movie Database
• Mr. Deeds' official website