Adam Sandler is back, if you can take the news. The nasal, lowbrow comedian’s new movie, “Mr. Deeds,” recorded an opening-weekend gross of $37. 6 million, erasing memories of his previous film and ...

It's not just that the movie itself is wicked awful, it's that Mr. Deeds brings out the worst in Adam Sandler. I'm talking about the cornball holy-fool side that infects even his better movies, such ...

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Despite falling in love with him, New York reporter Babe Bennett produces a series of mocking articles when hick Longfellow Deeds comes to the city to collect his $20 million inheritance. But when his ...

This 1936 comedy, starring Gary Cooper and showing for a week at Film Forum, turns the tables on the period’s metropolitan melodramas. By J. Hoberman Around the dawn of the New Deal, a naïve bumpkin ...

As in The Wedding Singer, Sandler tries to branch out from coarse, guy-driven guffaws with a semiromantic date flick. But he's still stuck in his jokey-jerk mode as a questionable Everyman whose ...

Based on the Frank Capra classic, Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936), which starred Gary Cooper, Mr Deeds is little more than a starring vehicle for Adam Sandler to showcase his obnoxious brand of humour ...

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