Mr. Deeds

2002 · 1h37 · Film

Directed by Steven Brill

Starring Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Allen Covert, Peter Gallagher, Jared Harris, Erick Avari, Peter Dante, Conchata Ferrell, Harve Presnell

Ideal when you feel… Romantic Happy Angry

When 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.

Original language

English

Screenplay

Tim Herlihy, Robert Riskin, Clarence Budington Kelland

Music

Teddy Castellucci

Cinematography

Peter Lyons Collister

Cast

Allen Covert, Peter Gallagher, Jared Harris, Erick Avari, Peter Dante, Conchata Ferrell, Harve Presnell, Steve Buscemi, Blake Clark

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