This remake of a 1936 Frank Capra picture turns out to be the perfect vehicle for abrasive funnyman Adam Sandler, a common man’s comedian who fits quite nicely in a farce
celebrating common wisdom. After the death of his media-baron uncle, small-town boy Longfellow Deeds (Sandler) reaps a $40 billion inheritance and is swept into a greedy corporate world that runs afoul of his folksy charm. Some of this gets corny and sentimental, but it’s always in the earnest manner of Capra’s pictures and often leavened by Sandler’s absurd, anarchic humor.
