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Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Allen Covert, Peter Gallagher
A sweet-natured, small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way.
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Has a couple laugh out loud scene but overall the movie is dumb and poorly acted by Sandler, terrible remake of the original. Fun to watch because it's dumb and silly like most Sandler comedies, John Turturro is hilarious in this one.
There are so many simply hilarious underlines in this movie. The black foot, the creepy "I'm around every corner butler". Hilarious.
"Don't let the fancy clothes fool you."
When Preston Blake (Harve Presnell), a remarkably wealthy media magnate, dies with neither a wife nor children, the question on the lips of most of his associates is who will inherit the estate. The surprising answer turns out to be...( read more)
Another rom com for Adam Sandler. His character inherits a lot of dosh and a share of a huge media company. He falls for Winona Ryder, but can she tell him who she really is? Adam is always adorable.
I think this is my favorite Adam Sandler movie. It manages not to be as crass as a lot of his other ones and yet somehow still manages to be funny.
Any movie that makes fun of rich people is worth renting. If I ever won the lottery I'd probably act the same way. Funny, but not knee-slapping hilarious like some of Sandler's earlier work. Seeing John Turturro as a butler was a big weird, but so was his Jesus role in The Big L...( read more)
Well, let me put it this way, Adam Sandler is NOT Gary Cooper, Winona Ryder ins't Jean Arthur and Steven Brill isn't Frank Capra, at all.-
