Mr. Deedsdirected by Steven Brill | |
| Category: |
"Comedy" |
|---|---|
| Year of Release: | 2002 |
| Date Added: | 04/25/2008 |
| Date Watched: | 01/10/2005 |
| Description: | A remake of the 1936 Gary Cooper film. Deeds (Adam Sandler) is the owner of a pizza restaurant in a small New Hampshire town. He inherits $40 billion from his great-uncle, the owner of Blake Media. Chuck Cedar, CEO of Blake wants the shares so he can sell them and make a killing. Deeds travels to NYC and moves into the luxurious penthouse of his uncle. Everyone thinks he’s a small-town rube. Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), producer of a tabloid TV show, fakes being mugged to meet Deeds, and the two start hanging out together. She tells him she’s a small-town girl who works as a school nurse. But she’s secretly taping him and giving the tapes to her boss, Mac McGrath who airs scathing reports on Deeds on TV. Deeds falls in love with Babe, but when he finds out she lied to him, he sells his stock to Cedar and goes back home. Babe has fallen in love with him by this time, so she quits her job and follows, but he’s not interested. Then he finds out that Cedar is selling the company and firing 50,000 people. Deeds buys one share so he can speak at the stock-holders’ meeting. He convinces the other stock-holders not to vote with Cedar but Cedar still has enough votes. Then Babe shows up with evidence that Black had a closer relation than Deeds — his butler Lopez who was his own son by a maid. Lopez keeps Black Media together and gives Deeds, and Babe who goes back home with him to work in the pizza place, one billion dollars. |
| My Rating: | 5 |
Reviewed by Roger on 2008-07-24 14:19:50
