Featured Audience Ratings

• Graham J

  
  Another inspiring tale from the master. Gary Cooper is brilliant.

• Michael G

  
  God, I loved this movie! Not only is Mr. Deeds Goes to Town yet another of Frank Capra's best works but it manages to do what every other great Frank Capra movie does -- restores my faith in humanity, gets me teary-eyed and has me clapping at the end. Admittedly I was on the… More
  God, I loved this movie! Not only is Mr. Deeds Goes to Town yet another of Frank Capra's best works but it manages to do what every other great Frank Capra movie does -- restores my faith in humanity, gets me teary-eyed and has me clapping at the end. Admittedly I was on the fence about Gary Cooper when this movie started but I loved the man by the end. The echo scene was hysterical and for as much as I started to roll my eyes at the beginning of the courtroom scene, I felt as bad doubting Capra as the characters in the movie did doubting Deeds. Unfortunately I couldn't stop thinking about the awful Adam Sandler remake the whole time but its probably for the best I saw that one first (I know, I know...) as I'd probably make it my life's mission to drop an anvil on his head. As for the Capra one, you cannot go wrong...!

• Jameson W

  
  What a great classic film! Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur are absolutely perfect!

• AJ V

  
  If you've seen Mr. Deeds, the one with Sandler, you should really see the original movie with Cooper. Arthur is such a great actress, and she's great in this movie too. The movie is funny, realistic, and insightful, much more so than the remake which was just stupid.

• Anthony L

  
  The creation of the romantic comedy as we know it, Capra's classic is now the format it seems for every Rom-com made ever since. Don't watch them though, watch this instead, the first, the best. There is a theory going around that there are actually only 7 story-lines in… More
  The creation of the romantic comedy as we know it, Capra's classic is now the format it seems for every Rom-com made ever since. Don't watch them though, watch this instead, the first, the best. There is a theory going around that there are actually only 7 story-lines in cinema, Kurosawa invented 6 of them, Capra made the 7th! It's such a shame that this film has been rated by just over 7,000 people while the remake has over 600,000 hits!

• Ken S

  
  So much better then I was expecting! A really funny, touching and surprising film that just makes you smile! One of Capra's best. Does anyone think Daniel Craig stole his DNA from Gary Cooper?

• Matthew Y

  
  Don't let the Adam Sandler film fool you Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a charming and quaint little film and vintage Capra. A "pixified" young small-town man has inherited a large fortune. He ventures to the big city and a culture class of high society vs. low society… More
  Don't let the Adam Sandler film fool you Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a charming and quaint little film and vintage Capra. A "pixified" young small-town man has inherited a large fortune. He ventures to the big city and a culture class of high society vs. low society plus big city ruthlessness vs. little town hospitality occurs. Personified by a journalist desperate to prove she's got what it takes to make it in the biz and doesn't care if she takes complete advantage of the naive lad. That is, of course, until she does and witnesses the aftermath of her actions. A cute little picture filmed and acted with warmth and sincerity. Well worth the watch.

• Andrew F

  
  Kind of boring. I wasn't a huge fan.

• Lovable M

  
  A good Capra classic.

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