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DEEDS
With Adam Sandler, Wynona Ryder, Peter Gallagher, John Turturro
Directed by Steven Brill
If you don't know by now what to expect
from Sandler (unless you seen the brilliant Punch
Drunk Love), you're probably a strict Fellini watcher. Sandler plays Longfellow
Deeds, he runs a pizza place in a small town and is named as the closest tracked
relative of a wealthy man who just passed. He inherits 40 million, but there are
stock strings attached and the corporate tosser who wants to take over pulls strings
to push things in his favour - in the process they want to keep Deeds' identity
secret. Mr. Deeds moves into the mansion and spreads his good hearted wisdom all
over (his past time writing greeting cards, non of which the card companies ever
accept). Ryder is a reporter who gets assigned to find out who and what this new
millionaire is. This causes things to go pear shaped. Obviously he falls for her,
but she's not who she says she is, his image getting twisted and tarnished by
her media bastard boss. Fun, with isolated laughs but overall on a par with what
you'd expect from a Sandler comedy vehicle.
3 / C
- PB
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