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The story is about a very nice but naive, small town guy named Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler), who runs a pizzeria in New Hampshire and writes greeting card poetry as a hobby. He finds out that he has inherited forty billion dollars from a long lost, deceased uncle, who ostensibly had no other known living relative. So, Deeds is off to New York City to see about the administration of his new found mega-bucks.

While in New York he becomes the target of the tabloids, and his decent, small town values are made to look foolish, and he is mocked by its more sophisticated denizens. When ambitious journalist, Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), goes undercover as a small town girl, setting up a false scenario and identity to meet our new billionaire and boast a journalistic coup, she ultimately finds herself falling in love with Deeds, charmed by his innate goodness and sincerity. Unfortunately, by then, the damage is done.

Pete Gallagher is suitably smarmy as Chuck Cedar, the CEO who is looking to take charge of Deeds' media empire. Erick Avari, as Cecil Anderson, an attorney and Chuck Cedar's accomplice, has his own comedic moments. Adam Sandler is, as always, Adam Sandler. He plays the role of Deeds as that of a simpleton and is, at times, funny without being too sophomoric. Winona Ryder is adequate as Babe Bennett but is no comedienne, and she takes a backseat to Jean Arthur, who played the part opposite Gary Cooper in the original version. Moreover, there is absolutely no on screen chemistry between Sandler and Ryder.

It is John Turturro, however, who shines in this film. In the role of Emilio Lopez, the deceased uncle's butler, he is truly funny, stealing the show in nearly every scene in which he appears. He is the one true shining star in this otherwise run-of-the-mill remake and the one reason for seeing this film. Look for cameos by Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider, and Al Sharpton.

If one overlooks the somewhat ham-handed direction by Steven Brill, the unsubtle script by Tim Herlihy, and avoids making comparisons to the film on which this one is based, one will enjoy this movie, if only for John Turturro's hilarious, scene stealing performance.

MR. DEEDS DVD
AFTER SEEING "MR. DEEDS" THREE TIMES ON THE BIG SCREEN IT WAS APPARENT THAT I WOULD BE PURCHASING THE DVD UPON RELEASE. EVEN AFTER A FORTH VEIWING THE MOVIE WAS STILL FUNNY AND HIGHLY ENTERTAINNG TO ME. SOMETHING THAT IS ALSO FUNNY TO ME IS WHEN I HEAR SOMEONE SAY HOW MUCH THEY LOVE ADAM SANDLER AND HIS MOVIES, YET THEY DON'T LIKE THIS ONE. "MR. DEEDS" IS ONE OF (IF NOT SIMPLY HIS BEST FILM) SO FAR. IN ADDITION TO SANDLER.. A GREAT CAST WAS FORMED. YOU'VE GOT WINONA RYDER IN A DELIGHTFUL PERFORMANCE, JOHN TURTURRO STEALING SCENE AFTER SCENE, PETER GALLAGHER IN A NASTY ROLE AND A HILARIOUS ALLEN COVERT. THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS THIS FILM WAS REMADE FROM A FILM THAT WAS MADE IN THE 1930's (MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN) DURING THE DEPRESSION ERA. THIS 2002 REMAKE IS EVERYTHING IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AND MORE. MY THOUGHT IS LETS NOT COMPARE THIS WITH THE 30's CLASSIC. LETS JUST LAUGH AND HAVE A GOOD TIME. ALL IT TAKES IS A SENSE OF HUMOR. DVD FEATURES: WIDESCREEN / 5.1 DOLBY DIGITAL / COMMENTARY / DELETED SCENCES / THREE FEATURETTES / DEEDS GRETTING CARDS (which can be emailed to friends ect.) / DAVE MATTHEWS BAND MUSIC VIDEO / FILMOGRAPHIES / TRAILORS / & MORE

What the.........!?
Here's something you don't see everyday: an expectation that a movie will be good based on who stars in it being completely shafted. Actually, I get that feeling quite a bit, but never like this. Adam has been in some great movies (Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, and, despite what everyone else seems to say about it, I loved Little Nicky). However, this movie is complete garbage, and those responsible for this Godforsaken piece of crap should be burned at the stake. I guess this was supposed to be based on an earlier version of this movie (Mr. Deeds goes to town or whatever), and I hope to God that movie is at least 100X better than this waste of space.

Let me get right to the point. This movie tanked from start to finish. Few movies have accomplished this, but this one does so as if doing so is a no-brainer. What I remember of the beginning is lame and boring, the freaks that Adam hangs around must have some sort of mental retardation (if you've seen the movie, you know I'm not talking about stupidity that is funny, but just plain retardation that sucks), and H-O-L-Y CRAP Winona Rider is in the movie; nuff said! The best part of the moive (and I say best only to emphasize how bad this movie is) is when Rider's character kicks the overweight pizza store manager in the crotch, and she says "What are you kickin there for? I ain't got no b*lls!" Geeeezzzzz.......I couldn't even try to laugh at this nonsense; what was Adam thinking? By the way, Adam is very mellow in this movie (except for a couple of scenes where he beats someone up, but it's not even near funny this time), just like in Waterboy, but without the lousy accent (thank God!). He writes poems for greeting cards for Christ's sake!!! How much more of a loser can you be? I guess he's trying to model himself after Jason Biggs (which is about as low as you can go). Just get me a gun so I can put this movie and myself out of our misery!