Mr. Deeds was a 2002 comedy about an honest and earnest working man who comes to inherit a fortune and a huge media conglomerate. Sandler played the titular character Deeds in the film, with Ryder ...

As in The Wedding Singer, Sandler tries to branch out from coarse, guy-driven guffaws with a semiromantic date flick. But he's still stuck in his jokey-jerk mode as a questionable Everyman whose ...

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What New York City won’t do to a man. Take Longfellow Deeds of Mandrake Falls, Vermont. This habitue of small-town America has it pretty good: He writes poetry for a greeting card company, plays tuba ...

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It's not just that the movie itself is wicked awful, it's that Mr. Deeds brings out the worst in Adam Sandler. I'm talking about the cornball holy-fool side that infects even his better movies, such ...