Mr Deeds

Yep, it's another Adam Sandler oldie but goodie. It's a tale of incredible wealth, humbleness, and if you watch close enough -- the way Mr Deeds wins people over with how humble he is. Such a classic.

Mr Deeds is a small town man. He lives in a village in the middle of nowhere where everyone looks out for each other. In essence they have to be like that because it's in the middle of the countryside and resources are thin. So his village is somewhat like an extended family. He is an incredibly humble and almost childlike man.

Somewhere in Mount Everest Mr Deeds distant uncle dies an incredibly wealthy old media tycoon. He owns at least 60% of media institutions around the country, and he dies without a heir. That's when the powers that be search tirelessly to find someone that could inherit his immesnse wealth.

That's when they find Mr Deeds. A small village boy who is absolutely penniless and wouldn't understand the concept of $40B dollars even if he tried to. He is also the perfect candidate because that means he may only be interested in the money and not really be interested in how his unle's estates are run. He has a vice president that wants to make an incredible amount of wealth from this opportunity.

So they set off to find Mr Deeds and tell him that he's inherited a crazy amount of money. So much that he's one of the richest people in the entire world. Of course Mr deeds doesn't really understand the concept of what's happening but decides to travel to the big city to perhaps grow up a little. The contrast in living states will help him come to terms with the real world a bit better.

And so he sets off to the big city in New York, where people are ruthless, uncaring, unkind, and extremely selfish. One thing that this film potrays well is how the richer a population is, the less that people rely on each other, and forget how needed we are for communities around us. This is expertly crafted as we watch Mr deeds be kind to absolutely everyone he meets, and they are almost shocked at his carefree and humble attitude. How he treats everyone as his equal, right down to the cleaner of his building.

That's where he meets Babe Bennet, a young news reporter who wants to get the low down on Longfellow Deeds because she expects him to be a dirty, low down tyrant, and if he isn't right now, then the money will eventually corrupt him as it does everyone. She pretends to be mugged in front of him to get his attention and they set off in their journey together.

But what she gets is absolutely not what she expects. Where she imagines that she'll be taken on seedy trails filled with bar fights and craziness (which actually happens on the first night because he gets drunk with John Macenroe) she finds a selfless wholesome man who puts other people's needs above his own. She reports all of this, and of course her boss is not happy because he expects low down dirtiness and craziness, and that is what sells the newspapers, not the heartwarming fluff that she has sent to her boss.

I'll leave you there but what this film does really well is contrast the difference between small town life and big town life. The difference between attitudes to community and the perception of the self. Each different, each has its own merits, but definitely is shown really well in this film.

I definitely recommend you watch this, if not for the culture but definitely the laugh a minute it gives you.

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