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Title: Mr. Deeds (2002)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Adam Sandler | ... | Longfellow Deeds | |
| Winona Ryder | ... | Babe Bennett | |
| John Turturro | ... | Emilio Lopez | |
| Allen Covert | ... | Marty | |
| Peter Gallagher | ... | Chuck Cedar | |
| Jared Harris | ... | Mac McGrath | |
| Erick Avari | ... | Cecil Anderson | |
| Peter Dante | ... | Murph | |
| Conchata Ferrell | ... | Jan | |
| Harve Presnell | ... | Preston Blake | |
| Steve Buscemi | ... | Crazy Eyes | |
| Blake Clark | ... | Buddy Ward, Kevin's Father | |
| John McEnroe | ... | John McEnroe | |
| J.B. Smoove | ... | Reuben | |
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Tom McNulty | ... | Red Parka Man |
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
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...but it felt like torture watching this thing. Now, I admit, I'm not a very big Sandler fan. Honestly, I don't know how he became the cash cow he is in Hollywood. But seeing him on talk shows and having been blown away by Punch Drunk Love, I tend to think there actually is something going on beneath the goofy, lovable frat-boy veneer. But good luck trying to find it in this movie.
I don't want to get too critical here--the real reason I had to write this is that the person before me wrote six or seven paragraphs on this movie and I was dumbfounded--this movie isn't even worth that much effort. It is so poorly made, from the acting (Turturro an exception as always)to the flat, lifeless cinematography. I really hate the way both Steven Brill and Peter Segal shoot their movies--completely unimaginative and frustratingly boring.
I'm sure they keep a fun and lively set going but come on, the images in front of me need some life too. This movie was at times painful to watch--as I do like Winona Ryder and most all the actors involved in this. But it almost seemed like stunt casting (let's get some great actors from independent movies [inexpensive] and give them nothing to do but act out poorly devised stereotypical roles that are supposed to hark back to Capra films)--none of the actors seemed comfortable, especially Winona... ugh...
You have talent Adam, don't be afraid to loosen your creative control and get a decent writer and/or director every once in a while to remind folks.