Mr. Deeds
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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.
Both Sandler and Ryder were nominated for Golden Raspberry Awards for their work in the movie (Worst Actor and Worst Actress, respectively), and the film itself was up for the Worst Remake or Sequel prize.
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.
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.
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).
Later in the movie, it is learned that Blake's butler, Emilio (Turturro), is his illegitimate child and true heir.