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A Balasaur Score of 44 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 5.8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 22%, Metacritic 24/100. Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do. Most of the 2,356 2000s comedy movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.
Ratings
IMDb5.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes22%
Metacritic24/100
Audiences rate it 34 points higher than critics do.
2,595 audience votes
Key crew
- Steven BrillDirector
- Teddy CastellucciOriginal Music Composer
- Tim HerlihyScreenplay
Cast
- Adam SandlerLongfellow Deeds
- Winona RyderBabe Bennett
- John TurturroEmilio Lopez
- Allen CovertMarty
- Peter GallagherChuck Cedar
- Jared HarrisMac McGrath
- Erick AvariCecil Anderson
- Peter DanteMurph
- Conchata FerrellJan
- Harve PresnellPreston Blake
- Steve BuscemiCrazy Eyes
- Blake ClarkBuddy Ward
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Themes
new york citylove letternew hampshireliarcity country contrastinheritancebillionairekindnessfableapple treecorporate take overchrysler building