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 filming the scene where Deeds beats up Marty Allen Covert got spun around by Sandler, slipped on the sidewalk and his skull hit the concrete with no protection and was unconscious for a minute.
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Goofs
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers):
When the show that Pam Dawson works for exposes her as an undercover reporter they show two side by side photos one of her as Pam Dawson (the virgin school nurse from Wincheastertonfieldville Iowa) and Babe Bennett (the reporter) the second picture of her with black hair is just a still from earlier in the movie before she died and permed her hair.
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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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"You Don't Know How It Feels"
Written and Performed by Tom Petty Courtesy of Warner Bros. Records, Inc. By Arrangement with Warner Special Products
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