Mr. Deeds

Mr. Deeds is a 2002 comedy film starring Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder and is a remake of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The movie also features Peter Gallagher, John Turturro and Steve Buscemi, has small roles by John McEnroe and Al Sharpton and has a brief, uncredited appearance by Rob Schneider.

Plot

Preston Blake started out in his career as a radio disc jockey as a young man, slowly working his way up through the ranks to found Blake Media, a corporation running hundreds of television and radio stations and with tens of thousands of employees. When Blake freezes to death at the summit of Mount Everest, a triumphant smile on his face, a search for his heir begins. When it is found that he has a living nephew named Longfellow Deeds (Sandler) who runs a pizzeria in New Hampshire, Deeds is contacted and brought to New York, New York.

Related Topics:
Disc jockey - Mount Everest - Pizzeria - New Hampshire - New York, New York

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Plans are made for Deeds to sell his shares in the company and return home US$40,000,000,000 richer, but he must remain in New York for a few days as all the legal details are worked out.

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The story is major news, and reporter Babe Bennett (Ryder) has a friend pretend to steal her purse in sight of Deeds. Deeds "rescues" her and she continues to go out with him under the guise of a school nurse from Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa (a town she made up on the spot when asked where she was from which later turns out to be real).

Related Topics:
Reporter - Steal her purse - Go out - School nurse

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Later in the movie, it is learned that Blake's butler, Emilio (Turturro), is his illegitimate child and true heir.

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