Mr. Deeds
Don't let the fancy clothes fool you.
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough.Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie.Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.
- Director
- Steven Brill
- Worldwide
- $171M
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When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.
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Box Office & Release
Mr. Deeds returned 3.4× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $50M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $171M
- Release date
- Jun 28, 2002
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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