Mr. Deeds
Short description
Longfellow Deeds runs a small-town pizzeria and amuses his customers by reciting his own odd poems. His quiet life ends when he learns that a relative he never knew has left him a fortune of 40 billion dollars, along with a media company and sports teams. He moves to New York, where he is surrounded by people who want a share of what he has inherited, including a tabloid television reporter who hides her real job and pretends to be a small-town girl in order to get close to him. A company manager, meanwhile, works to break up and sell the business.
Steven Brill directed the film, which sits third in the run of features he made, after Heavyweights and Little Nicky. Tim Herlihy wrote the screenplay, and Sidney Ganis and Jack Giarraputo produced. Adam Sandler stars as Deeds, with Winona Ryder as Babe Bennett, John Turturro as Emilio Lopez, Allen Covert, Peter Gallagher and Jared Harris among the cast.
Made for about 50 million dollars and released in June 2002, the film took in roughly 171 million dollars worldwide, a strong return on its budget. Audience ratings are moderate on both IMDb and TMDB, and the critics' score is lower, showing that reviewers were harder on it than viewers.
What's left behind the scenes
- Famous tennis player John McEnroe appeared in a cameo role in the film.
- The Sikorsky S-92 helicopter used in the film had not yet completed mandatory certification by the Federal Aviation Administration at that time, and its interior was not yet finished. For this reason, no actors or crew members were allowed on board the helicopter, and all interior shots were artificially simulated.
- During a phone call with Longfellow Deeds, Winona Ryder’s character, pretending to be a school nurse, speaks about a sick boy named Billy Barty in her office. This is a small tribute to actor Billy Barty, who passed away in 2000, three months before the start of the film’s production.
- Director Steven Brill appears in a cameo as a violinist at Madison Square Garden.
- During the filming of the scene where Deeds beats up Marty in the street, an enthusiastic Adam Sandler delivered such a blow to Allen Covert that he fell to the ground and hit his head on the asphalt, losing consciousness for a minute.
- Filming period: May – June 2001.
- The sign reading “Welcome to Mandrake Falls” and the subsequent poem are taken from the original film “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” (1936).
- Rob Schneider played the exact same cameo as a delivery courier as he did in another Adam Sandler film, “Big Daddy” (1999).
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