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 Adam's Finest Movie to Date!, May 11, 2023
Mr. Deeds is the most hilarious comedy I have ever seen, "besides Pet Detective." It is so funny, yet unnofensive. It keeps itself at a family film level, while making everyone die laughing.
It is most certainly Adam Sandler's funniest, and cleanest movie yet.
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 "My grandfather was with the Abba...", May 2, 2023
Definitely a good romantic comedy, Mr. Deeds, brings to the screen the story of an average guy from a small town in New Hampshire who is informed that he has inherited his uncle's fortune, worth $40 Billion (!!!). As a result, he moves to the Big Apple to be close to the business. Things become a bit more complicated when the press takes a rather strong interest in him...
Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Torturro, Peter Gallagher, and the rest of the cast, have outdone themselves with their performances, which are exceptional to say the least. All the actors, without exceptions, give it their 100% and it really shows! Very well written and very well presented, the movie is without a doubt guaranteed to provide more than just a few laughs.
The setting, the plot, the dialogues, the humor, and the music are all wonderful!
In short, Mr. Deeds is a movie worth watching and even though it is not quite as good as the Waterboy or the Wedding Singer, it is definitely a keeper!
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Don`t let the fancy clothes fool you, Apr 23, 2023
This is the funniest miovie. Here`s another great Adam Sandler movie and another hit with Winona Ryder. Everyone will love this funny sweet movie. It`s a great movie to see with anyone. If you are a fan of Adam Sandler or Winona Ryder see this. If you aren`t you still will love it.
Enjoy,
Christina Ricci, Winona Ryder, and Dakota Fanning`s Fan
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 Sandler's Deeds, Jan 10, 2023
Adam Sandler films, I never know what to expect. Some I really like, some I really hate. Mr Deeds, something of a remake of the 1936 Frank Capra film, was entertaining enough while I was watching, but it's nothing great.
Adam Sandler plays Longfellow Deeds. He's a kind small town guy, he owns a pizza store and hopes to one day be in the greeting card business (though he hasn't quite got the hang of greeting card poetry yet). Then one day, right out of the blue, he is visited by a couple of businessmen. It seems that his great uncle, Preston Blake, has died trying to climb Mount Everest and by relation has passed his forty billion dollar media empire to Deeds. Deeds heads to New York with Blake's staff to sign the papers, and when he gets there he lives the high life, falls in love and gets hounded by the paparazzi.
It started off all right, I thought, like a parody rather than a remake, all silly and light hearted, and Adam Sandler is likeable enough as the kind Deeds. But it kind of goes downhill from there, if anywhere. It's not a parody, I discovered. I don't know what it is. I kind of wonder who this was aimed at. It's not a faithful remake of "Mr Deeds Goes to Town" (it's too silly for that), but it's too much of a remake to be a proper Adam Sandler film. It's something of an oddity. Some of the jokes, though I knew they were jokes, I just didn't find funny (like the frostbitten foot). The romantic plot (which takes up most of the second half of the film) really didn't grab me at all, and just dragged things out. Adam Sandler and Winona Rider (who plays his love interest, a paparazzi) don't have any chemistry, and the plot that brought them together isn't very likely or likeable.
The special features on DVD are not too shabby. There are a couple of gags in the deleted scenes which I reckon are funnier than some of the stuff that made it in the movie, actually.
You could probably do worse than rent "Mr Deeds", but you could probably do a lot better.
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 It just didn't hit the mark, Dec 31, 2022
Mr. Deeds is a film starring goofy but likeable comedian Adam Sandler. It is also a remake of a 1936 Frank Capra film called Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (starring Gary Cooper as Mr. Deeds). I also found out it was made as a TV series in 1969.
Preston Blake (Harve Presnell), a charismatic Ted Turner/Rupert Murdoch type of media mogul, dies in a mountain climbing expedition in his eighties and leaves behind a media empire, 40 billion dollars and no will. The CEO of his company (Blake Media), Chuck Cedar (Peter Gallagher), institutes a search to find the nearest living relative which turns out to be a small town pizzeria owner (and amateur would-be author of greeting card lines) called Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler).
Chuck and his lawyer Cecil Anderson (Erick Avari) travels to the small town of Mandrake Falls, New Hampshire in a fancy helicopter to locate Deeds. Deeds is excited by the good news and agrees to accompany the men back to New York City to claim his fortune. The whole town turns up to wave him goodbye.
Over in New York, Deeds' affable and good-hearted nature charms everyone except snobbish members of society and cynical news reporter and host of the "Inside Access" TV show, Mac McGrath (Jared Harris), who is determined to ridicule the new multi-billionaire. He gets show producer "Babe" Bennett (Winona Ryder) and her assistant Marty (Allen Covert) to dig out some dirt on Deeds.
"Babe" endears herself to Deeds by posing as a small town girl called Pam Dawson from "Winchestertonfieldville" working as a school nurse. Soon they start falling in love. But will Deeds find out that "Pam" is not what she seems. Also, why is Chuck so eager to get Deeds to sell his shares in Blake Media to him?
No doubt this is intended to be one of those "feel good" comedies where you can't help but be enthralled by the corny lines and situations, but it didn't hit the mark with me. Deeds is supposed to be innocent and naive and with a heart of gold, but Adam Sandler didn't come across as that "innocent and naive" and I couldn't help feeling that he was mocking the role rather than playing it. The shareholders' meeting towards the end didn't really work for me either, as Deeds' "speech" didn't strike me as believable or capable of turning the room sentiment around.
There are some interesting characters and cameo roles, including Emilio Lopez (John Turturro) the "sneaky" butler with the foot [...], "Crazy Eyes" (Steve Buscemi) and John McEnroe playing himself.
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