Mr. Deeds

2002 97 min Comedy, Romance

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.

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IMDb 5.8 RT 23 Metacritic 24

budget $50,000,000 earnings $171,269,565 return 3.4x

director Steven Brill

writer Tim Herlihy

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