Mr. Deeds

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Movie
German title Mr. Deeds
Original title Mr. Deeds
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 0
Rod
Director Steven Brill
script Tim Herlihy
production Joseph M. Caracciolo ,
Sidney Ganis , Jack Giarraputo ,
Adam Sandler
music Teddy Castellucci
camera Peter Lyons Collister
cut Jeff Gourson
occupation

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Mr. Deeds is an American comedy film directed by Steven Brill from 2002 and starring Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder . Tim Herlihy wrote the script . It is a remake of the 1936 comedy Mr. Deeds Goes to Town by Frank Capra , based on the short story Opera Hat by Clarence Budington Kelland .

action

Multi-billionaire Preston Blake dies climbing Mount Everest . The only living descendant is Longfellow Deeds, who inherits Blake's stake in Blake Media , which corresponds to 49 percent of the company's shares. Deeds runs a pizzeria in Mandrake Falls, a small town in New Hampshire , and is supposed to sell the inherited shares in the company to its manager for the sum of 40 billion US dollars.

Mac McGrath, host of the television show Inside Access , sends his colleague Babe Bennett to Deeds. In order to get closer to him, the reporter fakes a robbery on herself in the street and pretends to be a school nurse. Her plan works and Deeds makes an appointment with her. He stays in New York City longer than planned , wants to take a closer look at the inherited company and also finds the diary of his deceased relative.

The CEO of the company Chuck Cedar wants to break up the company after buying up the shares of Deeds and lay off the majority of the employees. The managers around Chuck Cedar finally succeed in persuading Deeds to sell his shares, but Deeds does not want to keep the money for himself and donates it to the non-profit organization United Negro College Fund .

In the end, however, it turns out that the sale of the company's shares was invalid, as Blake's former butler Emilio Lopez was the illegitimate son of Preston Blake and is thus his legal heir. He fires Cedar and his managers who tried to break up the company, thereby saving the company. At the end of the day, he will give Deeds a billion dollar gift. Deeds and Bennett eventually get together and she moves in with him in New Hampshire.

background

  • The production cost was approximately $ 50 million. The film grossed around US $ 126 million in cinemas in the United States and around US $ 45 million in other countries.
  • Director Steven Brill plays the violinist in Madison Square Garden in the film and screenwriter Tim Herlihy plays a firefighter.
  • John McEnroe , Al Sharpton and Craig Castaldo (aka Radio Man ) have guest appearances in the film and play themselves in it.

Reviews

James Berardinelli compared the film on ReelViews to the film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town , from which the new film is very different. He is "flat" and "uninspired". The chemistry between Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder is wrong.

Paul Clinton wrote on cnn.com on June 27, 2002, people over 25, with an IQ over 90 and drivers license holders should be able to find better entertainment than this movie. He wrote that the remake didn't have the charm of the original starring Gary Cooper .

Like Berardinelli, Roger Ebert criticized the bad chemistry between Winona Ryder and Adam Sandler in the Chicago Sun-Times of June 28, 2002.

Awards

Adam Sandler won the Kids' Choice Award in 2003 . He was nominated for the Teen Choice Award in 2002 and the MTV Movie Award in 2003 and the Golden Raspberry .

Winona Ryder was nominated for the Teen Choice Award in 2002 and for the Golden Raspberry in 2003.

The film won the Teen Choice Award in 2002 and the Taurus Award in 2003 . It was nominated for the 2003 Golden Raspberry for Worst Remake .

Teddy Castellucci received the BMI Film Music Award in 2003, Dave Matthews received the Film & Television Music Award of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers in 2003 for the song Where Are You Going .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mr. Deeds (2002) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 1, 2019 .
  2. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  3. ^ Criticism by Paul Clinton
  4. ^ Review by Roger Ebert

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