As in The Wedding Singer, Sandler tries to branch out from coarse, guy-driven guffaws with a semiromantic date flick. But he's still stuck in his jokey-jerk mode as a questionable Everyman whose ...

Mr. Deeds was a 2002 comedy about an honest and earnest working man who comes to inherit a fortune and a huge media conglomerate. Sandler played the titular character Deeds in the film, with Ryder ...

OK, OK, I must admit the preconceptions lurking in my mind before going to see the latest Adam Sandler vehicle, "Mr. Deeds," were rather low. I was hoping that a bit of talent from his onscreen ...

It's not just that the movie itself is wicked awful, it's that Mr. Deeds brings out the worst in Adam Sandler. I'm talking about the cornball holy-fool side that infects even his better movies, such ...