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
The film contains references to
To Kill a Mockingbird: - Boo Radley: Babe improvises a story of falling off a tree when she was younger, which happened to Boo Radley; - and when Babe goes into a building, she says hello to Mrs. Finch and her pet Atticus, a reference to Atticus Finch.
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Goofs
Continuity:
When Emilio calls Deeds and Pam/Babe to turn around, the back shot of Emilio shows that a microphone is missing, in the next shot, the microphone is there.
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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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"Wrong Impression"
Written by Natalie Imbruglia and Gary Clark Performed by Natalie Imbruglia Courtesy of The RCA Records Label / BMG Entertainment International UK & Ireland Ltd. Under license from BMG Special Products
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