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5.9When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.
Cast
- Adam Sandler as Longfellow Deeds
- Winona Ryder as Babe Bennett
- John Turturro as Emilio Lopez
- Allen Covert as Marty
- Peter Gallagher as Chuck Cedar
- Jared Harris as Mac McGrath
Themes
- new york city
- love letter
- new hampshire
- liar
- city country contrast
- inheritance
- billionaire
- kindness
- fable
- apple tree
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Ratings
IMDb
5.8/10
163,675 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
23%
Metacritic
24/100
- Year
- 2002
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 5 wins & 9 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Steven Brill
- Screenplay by
- Tim Herlihy
- Based on
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town , by Robert Riskin "Opera Hat", by Clarence Budington Kelland
- Produced by
- Sid Ganis Jack Giarraputo
- Starring
- Adam Sandler Winona Ryder Peter Gallagher Jared Harris Allen Covert Erick Avari John Turturro
- Cinematography
- Peter Lyons Collister
- Edited by
- Jeff Gourson
- Music by
- Teddy Castellucci
- Production companies
- Columbia Pictures New Line Cinema Happy Madison Productions Out of the Blue... Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- Release date
- June 28, 2002 ( 2002-06-28 )
- Running time
- 96 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $50 million
- Box office
- $171.3 million
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 93
- FilmAffinity ID
- 344149
- Official website
- www.sonypictures.com/movies/mrdeeds
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- publication date
- 2002-08-15
- title
- Mr. Deeds
- review score
- 24/100
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Mr. Deeds is a 2002 American comedy film directed by Steven Brill, written by Tim Herlihy, and produced by Sid Ganis and Jack Giarraputo. It stars Adam Sandler in the title role, alongside Winona Ryder, Peter Gallagher, Jared Harris, Allen Covert, Erick Avari, and John Turturro. The film is a remake of the 1936 Frank Capra film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, which itself was based on the 1935 short story "Opera Hat" by Clarence Budington Kelland. It tells the story of a pizzeria owner who learns that he is the heir of a late multi-billionaire.
Produced by Columbia Pictures, New Line Cinema, Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions in association with Out of the Blue... Entertainment, Mr. Deeds was released in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing on June 28, 2002. While financially successful, the film received negative reviews.