MR. DEEDS

'''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

Plot summary

Awards & nominations

Trivia

References to To Kill a Mockingbird

References to other Sandler movies

Other Related Movies

Other

Box office

External links

Plot summary

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.
In an accionists 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.

Awards & nominations

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'ASCAP Fim and Television Movie Awards:'

★ 'Won': Most Performed Song from a Motion Picture (Dave Matthews, for ''Where Are You Going'')
'BMI Film and TV Awards:'

★ 'Won': BMI Film Music Award (Teddy Castellucci)
'MTV Movie Awards'

★ Nominated: Best Comedic Performance (Adam Sandler)
'Razzie Awards:'

★ Nominated: Worst Actor (Adam Sandler)

★ Nominated: Worst Actress (Winona Ryder)

★ Nominated: Worst Remake or Sequel
'Teen Choice Awards:'

★ 'Won': Choice Movie of the Summer

★ Nominated: Choice Actor - Comedy (Adam Sandler)

★ Nominated: Choice Actress - Comedy (Winona Ryder)
'Taurus Awards:'

★ Nominated: Best Overall Stunt by a Stunt Woman (Mary Albee & Dorenda Moore)

Trivia

References to To Kill a Mockingbird

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".

References to other Sandler movies

★ Nazo from ''Big Daddy'' appears twice in the movie. Once catching a cat in his delivery bike & then exclaiming, "Holy shit! It's a cat!", he also appears in the end reciting Deeds' Hallmark Card & then being bitten by the cat who he rescued earlier in the movie.

★ The movie ''Anger Management'' has many of the actors in this movie.

Other Related Movies

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

Other

★ 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. The actual restaurant itself burned down in a grease fire in early 2007, and is in the process of being rebuilt.

★ Adam Sandler plays a New England Patriots fan in the movie even though he personally is a fan of their rivals the New York Jets. Sandler's character also owns the Jets which his character resents.

Box office

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

★ Boxoffice information

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★ Mr. Deeds' official website