MR. DEEDS
Cast
Adam Sandler as Longfellow Deeds
Winona Ryder as Babe Bennett/Pam Dawson
John Turturro as Emilio Lopez
Peter Gallagher as Chuck
Steve Buscemi as Crazy Eyes
Director is Steven Brill
Comedy-Longfellow Deeds, or Deeds as he's called, runs a pizza town in a small town no one's heard of. He writes greeting cards in his spare time. But he is contacted by employees of Blake television
company. The owner, Preston Blake, just died and his money, and
stock, is unknown of it's future destination. It turns out that Blake
is Deeds' great-uncle and he's the owner of $40 billion. So he's a
fish out of water, it's the first time he's left his small town and
also the first time he's been to New York. A reporter for a tabloid,
Babe Bennett, goes and pretends to be a nurse to get more dirt in the
Deeds/Blake story. Guess what happens?
Rater #1
5/10. Now this was an odd movie. I was surprised at how many times they used the word $h*t during the movie. it seemed to have happened almost every 5 seconds. I thought Winona Ryder didn't really fit the movie. Her acting seemed very poor even when she was trying to "make" stuff up. Adam's character was pretty funny, simple yet elegant. I loved John Turturro as Emilio. He was hilarious, being sneaky and all, and being obsessed with feet.
There wearn't too many special effects to speak of. The directing was an ok aspect of the movie. I found it weird at the end of the movie when.....well, you'll just have to see it. If you love Sandler movies, go for it, if you don't, you might want to try and get a dose of a toned down Sandler movie.
Rater #2
6/10-An atypical Sandler movie. He actually didn't play a childish adult, like in Billy Madison and Big Daddy. He's a sweet guy who's the town favorite. Winona Ryder seemed to not work in this setting;
her diologue seemed forced. It wasn't funny in every single part, but
the parts that were funny were very funny. I loved John Jurturro in
his role as the foot-obsesed butler who is "very sneaky, sir".
I was surprised on how tame the language was; since this is a
Sandler, I expeceted it to be more profane, but it was only scarce,
and Sandler only used it once (I was shocked)! I haven't seen the
original, so I can't judge from that, but now it's going to go on my
movie-to-rent list.
Rated PG-13 for some language.
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