Mr Deeds 🎥 2002 Movie Info

Plot Summary

Boisterous billionaire Preston Blake, owner of Blake Media, freezes to death while climbing Mount Everest. During the ensuing media circus, Blake’s board of directors, led by the greedy Chuck Cedar, discover his closest living relative is a great-nephew named Longfellow Deeds. Deeds is a kind-hearted and cheerful man who runs a pizzeria in Mandrake Falls, New Hampshire with his friend Jan. He also writes greeting cards in his free time, hoping they might be accepted by Hallmark. Deeds is flown to New York City, where he meets various Blake staff members, including well-meaning general counsel Cecil Anderson.

He also meets Blake’s longtime butler Emilio Lopez, who saw Blake as a father figure and quickly befriends Deeds. Plans are made for Deeds to sell his shares in the company for $40 billion, though he must remain in New York for the time being. Cedar grows to despise Deeds, and secretly wants to break up Blake Media. Cynical television tabloid reporter Babe Bennett, wanting in on the story, invents the false persona of “Pam Dawson” to get close to Deeds. She has her lecherous co-worker Marty pretend to steal her purse in front of Deeds so he can “save her”. However, Deeds beats Marty senseless. Deeds is immediately smitten with Babe, who clumsily makes up a story about being a school nurse from the town of “Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa”.

Although initially only interested in the story, Babe eventually falls for the kind-hearted Deeds, who writes her a poem and manages to find a real “Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa”, to which he takes her on a surprise trip. Marty reveals Babe’s true identity to Cedar and, during a dinner date, the truth is revealed about her deception. Heartbroken, Deeds decides to return home. He is assured that the company will stay open, and asks to donate his money to the United Negro College Fund.

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