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.
Written by Sujit R. Varma
When filming the scene where Deeds beats up Marty Allen Covert got spun around by Sandler, slipped on the sidewalk and his skull hit the concrete with no protection and was unconscious for a minute.
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Goofs
Continuity:
When Deeds first appears and talks with Marty about his being "sick", Marty has a Pepsi cup on a tray which changes into a beer mug during the course of the conversation.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Preston Blake:
I'm gonna get to the top of Everest, if it's the last thing I do!
[cut to his frozen but triumphant body clinging to the summit of Mount Everest]
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"Sweetest Thing"
Music: U2 Lyric: Bono & The Edge Performed by U2 Courtesy of Universal-Island Records Ltd. Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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