Ryder plays Bennett like Pepe le Pew's feline love interest. As enjoyable as Sandler is in this film, he can't generate any chemistry with the actress. The romantic comedy is only firing on half its cylinders, though, as Winona Ryder is badly miscast and flounders miserably. The production is professionally acquitted with NYC spaces lush and grand while Milford Connecticut's ready made small town look stands in for Sandler's home state. Customers include Steve Buscemi doing a Marty Feldman impersonation as Crazy Eyes, who is delighted by custom pizzas topped with oreos and jelly beans. Conchata Ferrell is the maternal presence of Deeds Pizza and Peter Dante is the dumber than dirt low-brow comic relief. The small town folk are also well represented. Tennis star John McEnroe is awkward but good natured in an extended cameo while the Reverend Al Sharpton is a rhyming natural as himself. Rob Schneider makes his token appearance to catch a cat flung from a burning building, but does not utter his hitherto signature line ('You can do it'). Sandler regular Allen Covert gets knocked around as a hapless media producer and Jared Harris is Gallagher's media equivalent as Babe's boss. Gallagher does a full on corporate sleaze offset by Avari's comic appreciation of the small town boy. Turturro is fabulously funny and over the top as a 'very sneaky' butler who excels in the art of impossible disappearing/reappearing acts. He generously lets supporting star John Turturro, as Deeds' Spanish butler Emilio, steal every scene he's in. The man's comfortable in his skin, enjoys performing (doing a fun cover of Bowie's "Major Tom") and has comic timing. Sandler is engaging as Deeds, exuding the warmth, if less vulnerability, of his wedding singer. But the media will harass and abuse him, particularly in the form of Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder, "Autumn in New York"), an "Inside Access" producer who poses as a school nurse from 'Winchestertonfieldville' Iowa to capture Deeds' heart while broadcasting her questionably obtained footage of his mishaps and misrepresented heroics around the city. Once in NYC, Deeds is appreciative of the chutzpah shown by a tabloid photographer, who gets his shot then leaps off a rooftop with hang gliding equipment. ![]() Writer Tim Herlihy updates the classic by making the poetry writing Deeds an aspiring greeting card author, but maintains the basic outline of the original film. ![]() The film does have three major drawbacks, but I'll get to those later. Deeds Goes To Town" and succeed to varying degrees. ![]() Most importantly, I know that I messed up real bad, and I'd be willing to spend the rest of my life begging you to give me another chance, because I am so deeply in love with you, and I know that it's definitely that forever kind of love that.The Sandler team which last delivered the execrable "Little Nicky" attempt to recapture the sweet Sandler of "The Wedding Singer" by remaking Frank Capra's 1936 Gary Cooper comedy, "Mr. I love Bruce Springsteen, Allman Roka and Abbott and Costello movies. and I really did have that Holly Hobby notebook I was telling you about. When I was in fifth grade, I got a crush on Walter Kronkite, and. I have brown eyes and I don't know what my natural hair colour is anymore. So I started working on it, and here's what I've got so far: My name is Babe Bennett. you said that you didn't know who I was, and it made me realize.
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