Mr. Deeds (2002) - 21 corrections

Directed by Steven Brill, starring Adam Sandler, John Turturro, Peter Gallagher, Steve Buscemi, Winona Ryder (add more)

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Entry The footage that Pam presents of Deeds obviously couldn't have gotten from her camera. Notice of all the incredible angles she impossibly got, including be in two places at the tame to get two shots of one moment. The footage that she presents is the actual film part, that was shown before. This happens in the two footages she gets. [This mistake has already been submitted and corrected. As noted in the other correction the footage is not necessarily from just Pam's camera but eye witnesses sending in their footage of the incident.]
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Entry The first time Deeds watches the show that features him as a jerk, he gets up in bed and says "What's this?" His lips don't move when he says this. [The words, "what's this" can easily be said without moving lips. Plus, if you look at Deeds speak throughout the movie, his lips usually don't have much movement in them. ]
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Entry When Deeds is playing tennis with Chuck he hits him lots of times. There's one time that he hits his shoulder, yet Chuck covers his throat as if the ball hit him there. [The ball DOES hit him in the throat, but the angle which it hits and bounces makes it look like it hit his shoulder.]
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Entry When the fire rescue story is shown on the tabloid tv show, it more than once shows shots from camera angles that "Pam" could not possibly have caught with her hidden camera (one that appears to be from a neighboring building, for instance.) [Being New York City, there was probably newscameras and/or spectators with cameras, whom sent footage to the news agencies. This happens a lot. In fact, there are whole TV shows dedicated to spectator shot disasters and stunts.]
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Entry In the scene where Deeds is handing out pizzas with the two business men, he has 3 pizza boxes at the start. He then gives a box to the elderly women sitting on the bench. The shot changes and he has only 1 box left when he goes to help the elderly man cross the street. [He could have delivered the second pizza before we see him with only one left. In fact, when he gives one of the old ladies a pizza, a second lady raises her hands as if to grab one. Perhaps one was hers and he gave it to her after that scene ended.]
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Entry In the scenes where Deeds and "Pam" are by the water fountain and when he is walking home after her goodnight kiss, it is obviously raining outside, though they never get wet. [I believe the "rain" you are seeing is water from the fountain behind them, which is why they don't get wet.]
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Entry When Deeds saves Babe ('Pam') from drowning, she just gets up and leaves as though nothing had happened. However, it's winter in New Hampshire. If this had been real life, Babe would have probably needed a trip to the hospital for frostbite and probably hypothermia as well - water at that temperature is COLD. [Actually, though being odd, sometimes water under ice is warm. Not warm like a pool, but much warmer than freezing temperature. I know this from personal experience when I put my legs through ice at about 10 degrees fahrenheit. The water was really warm underneath, even though there was a thick layer of ice.]
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Entry Cedar says that with the 5 million votes he controls by proxy for the investors, he now has control. If 300 million votes are 49%, 305 million is not even 50%. He could still have been voted down. [He says that 300 million votes is "over 49%", so an extra 5 million could push him over.]
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Entry When Deeds plays tennis with Chuck, Anderson is sitting in the umpire chair. In closeups you can see a black umbrella by Anderson, yet in wideshots the umbrella is nowhere to be seen. This happens throughout the whole scene. [This is hard to tell, but I think the umbrella seen in closeups is the green umbrella which is a bit behind Anderson.]
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Entry In the restaurant Deeds says to Pam, "I'll get your coat", yet they leave the restaurant without it. [When they leave, Deeds walks into John Macenroe and Pam goes to the toilet. Deeds then talks with John, and probably forgets the coat. Anyway we later see John, Deeds and Pam walk off - Deeds may still get Pam's coat, perhaps in the restaurant lobby or elsewhere.]
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Entry During the whole scene where Pam falls into the ice, and Deeds rescues her, you can never see their breath, although it is very cold, what with it being winter and there being ice and snow around. [I can tell you, being from Minnesota, that sometimes when it is cold, you still can't see your breath. Also, it can be 30 degrees when there is ice and snow around.]
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Entry If the machine employed to find Blake's closest descendant was as high-tech as all the employees said it was, why did it skip over the butler and go to Deeds? The butler is Blake's son, while Deeds is Blake's nephew. And this thing can probably read DNA samples, yes? [They probably didn't test the butler. They did not even consider him anything but a butler.]
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Entry In the fire scene when Rob Schneider gets the cat, it is grey with white stripes. At the end of the movie when he says a line from Deeds Hallmark card, he has a black cat. [It's just a different cat. Since the woman was also rescued from the fire, one could assume she just got all of her cats back, and enough time passed that Schneider could have just found another cat.]
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Entry I know its just an expression but if you listen to Peter Gallahger in New Hampshire he says "Let's go dot all the i's and cross all the t's". If you look you will see that there are absolutly no i's or t's in Adam Sandler's character name "Longfellow Deeds". [That's the most ridiculous piece of "trivia" I've ever heard. As you yourself say "it's just an expression". It has nothing to do with his name.]
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Entry At the scene where Adam Sandler is preparing a proposal dinner in the basketball arena, he sits at the table with John Turturro and it is clear that only one of the two candles at the table is lit. Seconds later, when they stand up, both candles are lit. [Both candles are lit the entire time.]
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Entry When Adam Sandler finds himself at the top of the staircase, it is clear that there is no table at the bottom, but when he slides down the banister, he lands on a table that wasn't there seconds ago. [It is not clear that there isn't a table at the bottom, it just isn't in the camera view when Deeds is at the top of the stairs. ]
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Entry After Deeds says his speech at his great uncle's funeral, he opens up the casket. First of all, he wouldn't be still frozen. Secondly, he would be dressed in a suit. [He wouldn't necessarily be dressed in a suit. When you die you usually can be dressed in anything that you want. I agree that he wouldn't have been still frozen.]
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Entry When Deeds (Adam Sandler) throws the fake crook into the garbage cans, they all fall, but while Deeds is on top of the guy repeatively punching him, the cans are just magically back up again. [You can see that there are 2 cans there. One can was knocked down, the other was standing and we only see one standing.]
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Entry How did Emilio get the $40 billion in the end if the money was already sent to the UNCF? [The cheque was not valid, because Deeds was not the owner of the money (he wasn't the owner of the stocks and therefore had no right to sell them).]
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Entry Mid-way into the movie, the butler explains to the evil shareholder, that he "hails from Spain," because of a remark made by the shareholder. How could the butler know where his roots are, if is mother died when he was born, and he never knew that Preston Blake was his father? [It is possible that Blake told him where his mother was from. After all, Blake was his father.]
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