Movie
Mr. Deeds
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2002-06-28
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Columbia Pictures, New Line Cinema, Happy Madison Productions, Out of the Blue... Entertainment
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
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
- Erick Avari as Cecil Anderson
- Peter Dante as Murph
- Conchata Ferrell as Jan
- Harve Presnell as Preston Blake
- Steve Buscemi as Crazy Eyes
- Blake Clark as Buddy Ward
Crew
- Steven Brill - Director
- Tim Herlihy - Screenplay
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