The film is a remake of the Frank Capra film Mr. It tells the story of a pizzeria owner who learns that he is the heir of a late multi-billionaire as he also meets a television reporter wanting a story on him. Entertainment, Mr. The film received negative reviews. During the ensuing media circus , his board of directors, led by the greedy Chuck Cedar, discover his closest-living-relative is a great-nephew named Longfellow Deeds.
Deeds is a kind-hearted and fiercely protective man who runs a pizzeria in Mandrake Falls, New Hampshire with his friend Jan. He also writes greeting cards in his free time, hoping they might be accepted by Hallmark. Deeds is flown to New York City and meets various Blake staff-members, including well-meaning general counsel Cecil Anderson. He also meets Blake's longtime butler Emilio Lopez, who saw Blake as a father figure and quickly befriends Deeds.
Cedar grows to despise Deeds, and secretly wants to break up Blake Media. Cynical television tabloid reporter Babe Bennett, wanting in on the story, invents the false persona of "Pam Dawson" to get close to Deeds. She has her lecherous co-worker Marty pretend to steal her purse in front of Deeds so he can "save her," though unfortunately, Deeds pummels Marty senseless.
Deeds is immediately smitten with Babe, who clumsily makes up a story about being a school nurse from the actually real town of "Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa. Although initially only interested in the story, Babe eventually falls for the kind-hearted Deeds, who writes her a poem and manages to find a real "Winchestertonfieldville, Iowa," which he takes her to on a surprise trip. Marty tips-off Cedar to Babe's true identity and during a dinner date, the truth is revealed about her deception.
Heartbroken, Deeds decides to return home. He's assured that the company will stay open, and asks to donate his money. However, he later learns from his mentally-unstable friend "Crazy Eyes" that Cedar intends to sell the company and lay off thousands of employees. Babe follows Deeds to Mandrake Falls to win him back, getting into a massive brawl with Jan, who is furious at Babe for hurting her friend.
