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Article: 'MR. DEEDS' DISHONORS ORIGINAL ADAM SANDLER NO GARY COOPER.(LIVING)(Movie review)(Review)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2002
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Byline: David Germain Associated Press
Adam Sandler's 'Mr. Deeds' is not the absolute profanation of the Frank Capra original that it could have been, especially considering the remake comes from the director and co-writer responsible for Sandler's abominable 'Little Nicky.'
Still, 'Mr. Deeds' is a movie that should not exist, sullying the memory of Capra and Gary Cooper's 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' while adding nothing worthy of its own.
This new film shares the crude tone but generally decent heart of Sandler's 1999 hit 'Big Daddy.' Sandler would have been better off developing another original script in that vein, rather than taking on a ...