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I’ve always loved Adam Sandler, and I love watching him grow (or, I
suppose, more accurately, grow up). I loved Billy Madison and Happy
Gilmore -- those totally bizarre and immature earlier films that were often so random
that they made me pause and ask, “Huh?” And I’ll even admit that I was a little
disappointed when Adam started actually acting instead of just being an idiot on-screen.
But now I’m perfectly comfortable with the grown-up Adam -- and I’m glad he can act a
little bit and be an idiot at the same time. Mr. Deeds is the perfect
combination of story and the bizarre humor that made me love Adam Sandler in the first
place.
In Mr. Deeds, Sandler plays Longfellow Deeds, a pizza place
owner from small-town New Hampshire, who gets the surprise of his life when he discovers
that he’s the only living relative of a recently-deceased media mogul. Deeds is taken to
New York City and given the star treatment as he waits for the paperwork to go through.
That’s when he meets Babe Bennett (played by Winona Ryder, the poor girl who obviously
didn’t get paid enough for her role, and it drove her to theft), a TV reporter, disguised
as an innocent small-town-girl-turned-big-city-school-nurse. Little does Deeds know that
the woman he’s falling for is the same person who’s making him look like a misfit on
TV.
Mr. Deeds is a great movie. It’s got a little bit of “Awww...”
mixed with a little bit of the typical Adam Sandler “Ewwwww...!” Could you really ask
for anything more?
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