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Mr Deeds
Directed by	Steven Brill
Produced by	Sid Ganis Jack Giarraputo
Written by	Tim Herlihy based on a story by Clarence Budington Kelland
Starring	Adam Sandler Winona Ryder John Turturro Peter Gallagher Jared Harris Allen Covert Erick Avari
Music by	Teddy Castellucci
Cinematography	Peter Lyons Collister
Editing by	Jeff Gourson
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures New Line Cinema
Release date(s)	June 28, 2002
Running time	96 minutes
Language	English
Budget	$50,000,000 (estimated)
IMDb profile

Mr. Deeds is a 2002 comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder, and is a remake of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The movie also features Peter Gallagher, John Turturro and Steve Buscemi, with small roles by John McEnroe and Al Sharpton and a brief, uncredited appearance by Rob Schneider.

Tagline: Don't let the fancy clothes fool you.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Cast 3 Box office 4 Trivia 4.1 References to To Kill a Mockingbird 4.2 References to other Sandler movies 4.3 Other Related Movies 4.4 Other 5 External links

Preston Blake started out in his career hoping to be a radio disc jockey as a young man, slowly working his way up through the ranks to found Blake Media, a corporation running hundreds of television and radio stations and with tens of thousands of employees. After Blake freezes to death at the summit of Mount Everest with a triumphant smile on his face, a search for his heir begins. When it is found that he has a living nephew named Longfellow Deeds who runs a pizzeria in New Hampshire, Deeds is contacted and brought to New York City by oily attorney Chuck Cedar (Peter Gallagher).

Plans are made for Deeds to sell his shares in the company to Cedar and return home $40 billion richer, but he must remain in New York for a few days as all the legal details are worked out.

The story is major news, and reporter Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), who works for a tabloid show called Inside Access, has a friend pretend to steal her purse in sight of Deeds. Deeds "rescues" her and she continues to go out with him under the disguise of Pam Dawson, a school nurse from Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa (a town she made up on the spot when asked where she was from which later turns out to be real). Though Babe/Pam initially hopes to just get a good story on the new heir, she eventually falls for the unfailingly kind-hearted Deeds and decides to tell him that she's not who she says she is, but Inside Access reveals it to Deeds first. Heartbroken, Deeds decides to return home to Mandrake Falls after giving all the money he inherits to the United Negro College Fund, a move which could cost all his employees their jobs.

At a shareholders meeting, Cedar has everyone convinced to sell the company, until Deeds (who has bought a single share) arrives and manages to convince everyone to not sell. But Cedar has control of a majority of the shares and the sale is approved. Babe arrives then, and reveals that Blake's butler, Emilio (John Turturro), is Preston Blake's illegitimate son and true heir, as his mother, then Preston's housekeeper, had a one-night stand with him, presumably resulting in their son's birth. This makes sense, as Emilio mentions that his mother died while giving birth, and Preston never mentioned about his real father during the forty years he lived there.

As Emilio is the true heir, Deeds' sale of his shares to Cedar is not legal. Emilio immediately takes control and fires Cedar, among others. Babe reveals herself to Deeds and apologizes for tricking him, and they reconcile. As they're leaving, Emilio gives Deeds a billion dollars, some of which Deeds spends on buying his friends a few dozen Corvette, and he returns to Mandrake Falls with Babe, where he learns that Hallmark Cards has bought one of his cards, the one he wrote for Babe.

Actor/Actress	Character	Notes
Adam Sandler	Longfellow Deeds
Winona Ryder	Babe Bennet/Pam Dawson
John Turturro	Emilio Lopez
Allen Covert	Marty
Peter Gallagher	Chuck Cedar
Jared Harris	Mac McGrath
Erick Avari	Cecil Anderson
Rob Schneider	Nazo, the Italian Delivery Man	uncredited

Region	Gross
Gross Domestic Takings	US$ $126,293,452
Other International Takings	US $44,976,083
Gross Worldwide Takings	US $171,269,535

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Throughout the movie, Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), a reporter concealing her identity as Pam Dawson from the small town of Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa, borrows descriptions and characters from the 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. At one point she claims to have fallen down "Boo Radley's apple tree" and broken her arm when she was a child. Arthur "Boo" Radley is a character in To Kill a Mockingbird. Later in the movie, while entering an apartment that is not really hers, she refers to a lady she really doesn't know as "Mrs. Finch, Atticus", in order to convince Deeds that she lives there. Atticus Finch is also a character in "To Kill a Mockingbird".

• Nazo from Big Daddy appears twice in the movie. Once catching a cat in his delivery bike and then exclaiming, "Holy shit! It's a cat!", he also appears in the end reciting Deeds' Hallmark Card and then being bitten by the cat who he rescued earlier in the movie. This supports a theory that some Adam Sandler movies exist in the same world.

• The movie is a remake of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) with Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur

• The film loosely follows the main plot to the 1994 Coen brother film The Hudsucker Proxy in which a female reporter tries to discover the plot behind the new company president and ends up falling for him. The film also stars cameo appearances from Peter Gallagher and Steve Buscemi.

• The cow used in the movie was milked by Mike Greenberg on Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN2 and ESPN Radio on June 21, 2007. Greenberg had to milk the cow (sox) because he lost a bet to Mike Golic. Assisting him was baseball analyst who grew up on a farm, Buster Olney. Greenberg didn't go into work the next day citing Milker's wrists and Post Teat Trauma Syndrome.

• The Wendy's restaurant featured in the film was located in Carmel, NY despite the fact the film claimed the location to be Connecticut^{[citation needed]}. The actual restaurant itself burned down in a grease fire in early 2007, and is in the process of being rebuilt^{[citation needed]}.

• Adam Sandler plays a New England Patriots fan in the movie even though ironically he is a fan of their rivals the New York Jets^{[citation needed]}. Sandler's character also owns the Jets which his character resents.

• When Chuck Cedar interrupted Cecil Anderson during the discussion about Deed's status as an heir to his uncle's wealth, he mentioned "Dot the T's and cross the I's", grammatically, it should be "Cross the T's and Dot the I's. This is actually a common saying making fun of over used expressions. For example, "this isn't rocket surgery" is combining the two sayings "This isn't rocket science" and "This isn't brain surgery".

• Boxoffice information
• Mr. Deeds at the Internet Movie Database
• Mr. Deeds' official website

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Heavyweights (1995) • Little Nicky (2000) • Mr. Deeds (2002) • Without a Paddle (2004) • Drillbit Taylor (2008)