A sweet-natured, small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way. It's a fish out of water, rags to riches story that has local tabloid reporters salivating.
8 January 1940, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
16 February 1959, Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
27 May 1962, Utica, New York, USA
13 April 1952, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
18 September 1981, Neptune, New Jersey, USA
1 October 1962, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA
26 December 1922, USA
28 February 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
21 August 1946, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
13 October 1964, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
13 June 1988, New York City, New York, USA
13 August 1968
24 February 1916, Pawhuska, Oklahoma, USA
22 September 1918, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
4 July 1945, Reinbeck, Iowa, USA
December 26, 2010
Pretty awful, but teen Sandler fans may like it.
July 02, 2002
Let's cut to the consumer-advice bottom line: Stay home.
July 01, 2002
It's not just that the movie itself is wicked awful, it's that Mr. Deeds brings out the worst in Adam Sandler.
June 24, 2006
The star and his numbskull cronies piss on Capra's grave with acrid insincerity.
July 01, 2002
There's nothing funny about this.
September 30, 2005
Anyone with an IQ over 85 should stay away.
February 01, 2004
Peter Gallagher must've been hard up for cash.
December 06, 2005
Sandler barely expends any energy trotting out the "average dude who shakes up stodgy high society" schtick, and director Steven Brill and scripter Tim Herlihy follow lazy suit.
May 28, 2008
The end result isn't dreadful, but it is patchy.
January 12, 2004
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October 21, 2002
No amount of spastic-colon jokes, cartoon violence or good-buddy cameos (Al Sharpton, John McEnroe) can distract from the fact that Gary Cooper [Sandler] ain't.
June 28, 2002
The projectors in the theater practically shut down with boredom.
