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. Of course, Deeds' sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn't necessarily need to change him.
Written by Sujit R. Varma
When talking to Longfellow on the phone and still pretending to be a school nurse, Babe says that a boy named Billy Barty is in her office sick. This is a tribute to the actor Billy Barty who died in 2000, only three months before production started.
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Goofs
Audio/visual unsynchronized:
Deeds says, "What's this?" when getting out of bed but his mouth doesn't move.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Preston Blake:
I'm gonna get to the top of Everest, if it's the last thing I do!
[cut to his frozen but triumphant body clinging to the summit of Mount Everest]
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"Sweetest Thing"
Music: U2 Lyric: Bono & The Edge Performed by U2 Courtesy of Universal-Island Records Ltd. Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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