At one point during the long ordeal of "Mr. Deeds," it is said of the Adam Sandler character, "He doesn't share our sense of ironic detachment. If there's is one thing Sandler's Mr. Deeds has, it's ironic detachment. Like so many Sandler characters, he seems fundamentally insincere, to be aiming for the laugh even at serious moments. Since the Frank Capra film "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" was above all sincere, we wonder how this project was chosen; did Adam Sandler look at Gary Cooper and see a role for himself? The pizzeria is one of those establishments required in all comedies about small towns, where every single character in town gathers every single day to provide an audience for the hero, crossed with a Greek chorus. Nobody does anything in Mandrake Falls, except sit in the pizzeria and talk about Deeds.
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It is a remake of the Frank Capra film Mr. With no immediate heir, it is unclear who will inherit Blake's massive fortune. It is found that Blake has a living grandnephew named Longfellow Deeds Adam Sandler , who runs a pizzeria in Mandrake Falls, New Hampshire and also writes greeting cards hoping to sell them to Hallmark. He remains in New York while the legal details are worked out. The story is major news, and reporter Babe Bennett Winona Ryder , who works for a tabloid TV show called Inside Access , has a co-worker pretend to steal her purse in sight of Deeds.
