Description
Longfellow Deeds (
Adam Sandler) is content to run his pizzeria in the cozy New Hampshire hamlet of Mandrake Falls. His only further desire is to someday see one of his corny rhymes printed in a greeting card. Deeds is awarded much more when he inherits the $40 billion empire of a media tycoon, a distant relative. He is lured to New York City by unscrupulous partners of the deceased where he is preyed upon by greedy stockholders. He also makes ample fodder for tabloid journalists, notably reporter Babe Bennett (
Winona Ryder) who poses as a school nurse from Iowa to win Deed's heart and expose him as an idiot to her viewership. Against her will and her own sleazy principles, Babe falls for the charming naivety of Deeds, whose fortune is in jeopardy.
Adam Sandler's man-child persona stands in for Gary Cooper in this remake of the 1936 MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN. Sandler and longtime collaborator
Tim Herlihy have molded the Frank Capra romantic comedy into a perfect vehicle for its star and a love letter to New York City.
Jared Harris as a tabloid TV host and
John Turturro as an omnipresent Spanish butler shine in supporting roles.
Details
Released: Tue 20 Sep 2005
Catalogue Number: 7822
Rating: 

- Director: Steven Brill
- Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Producers: Sidney Ganis, Jack Giarraputo
- Screenwriter: Tim Herlihy
- Feature:
- Audio Commentary - 1. Stephen Brill - Director, Tim Herlihy - Writer
- Deleted Scenes
- Featurette - 1. "Clothes Make the Man"
- Featurette - 2. "From Mandrake Falls to Manhattan"
- Featurette - 3. "Spare No Expense"
- Outtakes
- Music Video - 1. "Where Are You Going" - Dave Matthews Band
- Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailers
- Interactive Animated Menus
- Scene Selection
- Deeds' Greeting Cards
- Filmographies
- Screen-to-Script
- Weblinks
- Subtitles: English, French
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Discs: 1
- Format: NTSC
- Layers: 1
- Release Year: 2002
- Running Time: 97 minutes
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