"One of Frank Capra's best-loved stories gets a modernized and wildly slapstick reinterpretation in this romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler. When Preston Blake (Harve Presnell), a remarkably wealthy media magnate, dies with neither a wife nor children; the question on the lips of most of his associates is who will inherit the estate. The surprising answer turns out to be Longfellow Deeds (Adam Sandler), a cheerful but half-bright proprietor of a small-town pizzeria [and] a part-time greeting card poet, who is a distant relative of Blake. In order to claim his 40-billion-dollar inheritance, Deeds heads to New York City where Blake's former associates, Chuck Cedar (Peter Gallagher) and Cecil Anderson (Erick Avari); introduce him to the city while trying to figure out how to get their hands on his new fortune.
Meanwhile, Mac McGrath (Jared Harris), the producer of a sleazy tabloid television show; wants to get inside [the] scoop of Deeds and comes up with [a] perfect way to get in. [H]e sends [the] beautiful but unscrupulous reporter, Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder), to sweep Deeds off his feet while she's wired… [By] [c]onvincing Deeds that she's from a small town just like him, Bennett quickly wins his heart… He also displays a curious eagerness to defend her good name with his fists which quickly gets him in trouble… [A]s Deeds becomes the new laughing stock of New York, thanks to Bennett's stories; [he] decides [that] it's time [to do] something big with his money, while Cedar and Anderson think [that] they've finally found a way to take control of Deeds' holdings….”
Categories by FTI Movie House: Drama and Comedy
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