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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. Of course, Deeds' sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn't necessarily need to change him.
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Steven Brill
Production: Columbia Pictures
  5 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
24
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
PG-13
Year:
2002
96 min
$126,203,320
Website
1,927 Views


Free flamenco lessons for all.

People, people! Please!

- That is my money.

- Don't be misled. These are all lies.

Mr. Cedar...

... you are fired.

You can't fire me!

I'm in control!

Get your hands off me! I'm Chuck Cedar!

At the lake, when you saved my life...

...which I never got a chance

to properly thank you for...

- You're welcome.

- You said you didn't know who I was.

And it made me realize

I don't know who I am.

So I started working on it

and here's what I got so far.

My name is Babe Bennett.

I grew up in Syossett, Long Island.

I have brown eyes and I don't know

what my natural hair colour is anymore.

When I was in 5th grade,

I got a crush on Walter Cronkite.

I really did have that Holly Hobby notebook

I was telling you about.

I love Bruce Springsteen, Almond Roca

and Abbott and Costello movies.

I don't like liquorice or my ankles.

More importantly,

I know that I messed up real bad.

And I'd be willing to spend

the rest of my life...

...begging you to give me another chance...

...because I am so deeply in love with you...

...and I know it's definitely

that forever kind of love...

You're crazy.

You have beautiful ankles.

Let's go home.

You're fired! You! You!

Oh, you, sir. You are definitely fired.

I'd like to stay. I think I can really do

some good if I just got another chance.

Not fired. But tomorrow morning,

you let me change your socks.

Okay.

And you, Long-Long-Longfellow...

... you are the one

who made all this possible...

... with your beautiful words

and your beautiful spirit.

And Miss Bennett,

with her beautiful research.

How can I thank you?

All I want is your friendship, Emilio.

You're a good man.

I'll miss you.

Deeds!

- How about $1 billion?

- All right.

Done.

Holy Jeez!

I can't believe it!

- What's that?

- A letter from Hallmark.

They're actually going to buy

one of my cards.

- My gosh! Which one?

- The one I wrote for you, remember it?

Do I remember?

"Hard to breathe, feels like floating

"So full of love my heart's exploding

"Mouth is dry, hands are shaking

"My heart is yours for the taking

"Acting weird, not myself

"Dancing around like the Keebler elf

"Finally time for this poor schlub

"To know how it feels to fall in lub"

I'm so proud of you!

Can you believe Deeds bought us all these?

Damn, these things are fast!

I'm okay!

I'm okay!

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Tim Herlihy

Tim Herlihy (born October 9, 1966) is an American screen actor, film producer, screenwriter, and Broadway show author.Films written or produced by Herlihy have grossed over $3 billion at the worldwide box office. He frequently collaborates with Adam Sandler, who played a "Saturday Night Live" character, "The Herlihy Boy", in honor of Tim Herlihy. more…

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