Who played the title role in the 2002 film, Mr Deeds?
"ran from 1969 to 1970, starring Monte Markham as Longfellow Deeds. ""Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"" was loosely remade as ""Mr. Deeds"" in 2002, starring Adam Sandler and Winona Ryder. The Bengali movie ""Raja-Saja"" (1960) starring Uttam Kumar, Sabitri Chatterjee, and Tarun Kumar, and directed by Bikash Roy was a Bengali adaptation of this film. The 1994 comedy ""The Hudsucker Proxy"" had several plot elements borrowed from this film. A Japanese manga adaption of ""Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"" was made in 2010 by Ogata Hiromi called ""Bara no Souzokunin"". In 2013 ""Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"" was slated for"
"Dirty Deeds (2002 film) Dirty Deeds is a 2002 film shot in Australia. It was directed by noted fringe director David Caesar and stars Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, Sam Neill, Sam Worthington, John Goodman and Andrew Sommerich and produced by Nine Films and Television, the film and television production arm of the Nine Network, owned by PBL Media, now Nine Entertainment Co. Barry Ryan is a late 1960s Australian mobster who controls the Sydney gambling scene and is making huge profits from casino slot machines. His profitable venture attracts the unwanted attention of the American Mafia, who attempt to secure"
"guest role. Since then, he has been in guest roles in other television work, in both Australia and England. Other roles include ""Neighbours"" in 1994 ""Halifax f.p."" in 1996, ""State Coroner"" in 1997, ""Monarch of the Glen"" in 2001,"" Two Thousand Acres of Sky"" in 2003, in ""EastEnders"" in 2005, among others. In 2002 he landed the lead role in the award-winning Scottish romantic comedy film, ""American Cousins"", starring alongside Shirley Henderson, Danny Nucci and Hollywood stars Dan Hedaya and Vincent Pastore. The same year he appeared in another British film, ""Man Dancin'"", which starred ""EastEnders"" actor Alex Ferns. In"
"Colman couldn't get out of his other filming commitments. So Capra began adapting ""Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"". The two main cast members, Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds and Jean Arthur as Louise ""Babe"" Bennett/Mary Dawson, were cast as production began. Capra's ""first, last and only choice"" for the pivotal role of the eccentric Longfellow Deeds was Gary Cooper. Due to his other film commitments, production was delayed six months before Cooper was available, incurring costs of $100,000 for the delay in filming. Arthur was not the first choice for the role, but Carole Lombard, the original female lead, quit"
"$5,083,187 at the box office in Australia. In America, the film was distributed by DEJ Productions and released on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment on November 4, 2003. Dirty Deeds (2002 film) Dirty Deeds is a 2002 film shot in Australia. It was directed by noted fringe director David Caesar and stars Bryan Brown, Toni Collette, Sam Neill, Sam Worthington, John Goodman and Andrew Sommerich and produced by Nine Films and Television, the film and television production arm of the Nine Network, owned by PBL Media, now Nine Entertainment Co. Barry Ryan is a late 1960s Australian mobster who controls"
"2002 (film) 2002 is a Hong Kong science fiction action film directed by Wilson Yip and starring Nicholas Tse and Stephen Fung Tide Yau is a special agent from a police force known as 2002. He, however, is not an ordinary police officer and has the ability to see ghosts. In the beginning Tide's partner is Sam, however it is Sam's time to reincarnate and so a new partner must be found. The new partner comes in the form of Wind Cheng, who can also see ghosts. Wind (apart from being afraid of ghosts) thinks it is great being the"
"The Hours (film) The Hours is a 2002 British-American drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore. Supporting roles are played by Ed Harris, John C. Reilly, Stephen Dillane, Jeff Daniels, Miranda Richardson, Allison Janney, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, and Eileen Atkins. The screenplay by David Hare is based on Michael Cunningham's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title. The plot focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are interconnected by the novel ""Mrs Dalloway"" by Virginia Woolf. These are Clarissa Vaughan (Streep), a New Yorker preparing an award party"
"Meet the Deedles Meet the Deedles is a 1998 American comedy film directed by Steve Boyum in his directorial debut, and starring Paul Walker, Steve Van Wormer, A. J. Langer, John Ashton, Robert Englund, and Dennis Hopper. Phil Deedle (Paul Walker) and Stew Deedle (Steve Van Wormer) are two fraternal twin brothers who are complete surf bums living in Hawaii off of their wealthy single father, Elton (Eric Braeden). After the two decide to skip school to go on a surfing expedition with friends for their 18th birthday, the twins are expelled for truancy and knocking a truancy officer into"
"by Sir Donald Sinden), fellow High Court Judges Mr Justice (Sir Monty) Everard (played by Simon Ward) and Mr Justice (Sir Michael) Niven (played by Trevor Bowen), the Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Department (LCD, later Department of Constitutional Affairs) Sir Ian Rochester (played by Simon Chandler); and later the Home Secretary Neil Haughton MP (played by Nick Reding and later Aneirin Hughes). Other recurring characters include Deed's rebellious, animal rights activist daughter Charlie (played by Louisa Clein), who is initially a law student but later progresses to the courts; Deed's police friend, deputy assistant commissioner Row Colemore (played"
"Good Deeds Good Deeds is a 2012 American romantic drama film written, co-produced, directed by and starring Tyler Perry. The film was released on February 24, 2012. It is the eleventh out of thirteen films directed by Perry in which he appears. The film opens with Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry), head of the family-owned Deeds Corporation, dressing for work. His fiancée, Natalie (Gabrielle Union), fixes breakfast for him, noting his predictable routine. Before work, Wesley picks up his delinquent younger brother, Walter (Brian J. White), who lost his driver's license after a string of DUIs. They have lunch with their"
"Gleason (2002 film) Gleason is a 2002 American-Canadian television film directed by Howard Deutch and starring Brad Garrett as Jackie Gleason. Back in 1997, Garrett was set to portray Gleason in a television biopic for CBS, with the script written by ""Everybody Loves Raymond"" creator Philip Rosenthal, but it never came to fruition. When he learned that CBS acquired the rights to Gleason's life story, Garrett personally lobbied to the network to portray the role. Initially, CBS offered the part of Gleason to Mark Addy. However, Addy dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, thus Garrett was officially cast as Gleason."
"Gleason (2002 film) Gleason is a 2002 American-Canadian television film directed by Howard Deutch and starring Brad Garrett as Jackie Gleason. Back in 1997, Garrett was set to portray Gleason in a television biopic for CBS, with the script written by ""Everybody Loves Raymond"" creator Philip Rosenthal, but it never came to fruition. When he learned that CBS acquired the rights to Gleason's life story, Garrett personally lobbied to the network to portray the role. Initially, CBS offered the part of Gleason to Mark Addy. However, Addy dropped out due to scheduling conflicts, thus Garrett was officially cast as Gleason."
"Rules of Engagement (film) Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American war film directed by William Friedkin, written by Jim Webb and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson plays U.S. Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after men under Childers' orders kill a large number of civilians outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen. In 1968, a disastrous American advance in the Vietnam War has Lieutenant Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) executing an unarmed prisoner in order to intimidate a captive North Vietnamese army officer into calling off an ambush of U.S. Marines. His act"
"Supreme Court decision was published as ""Nothing Green: The Sequel to the Bestselling ""Evelyn"""" (2004, Orion Publishing Group, London). A highly fictionalised account of these events has been recorded in the film ""Evelyn"" (2002), starring Pierce Brosnan (who plays Desmond), Julianna Margulies, Sophie Vavasseur, Stephen Rea, Aidan Quinn and Alan Bates and directed by Bruce Beresford. The film only showed three children, Evelyn and two brothers (Maurice and Dermot), instead of all six of the real-life family's children, and involved no period in England or Jessie Powers. Desmond Doyle Desmond Doyle (1924 - 1986) was an Irish painter, decorator and"
"date, describing Capra's treatment as ""a kinship with his audience, a sense of common life, a morality"". ""Variety"" noted ""a sometimes too thin structure [that] the players and director Frank Capra have contrived to convert ... into fairly sturdy substance"". This was the first Capra film to be released separately to exhibitors and not ""bundled"" with other Columbia features. On paper, it was his biggest hit, easily surpassing ""It Happened One Night."" It was the 7th most popular film at the British box office in 1935–36. Capra won his second Academy Award for Best Director in 1936 for ""Mr. Deeds"
"Goes to Town"" (1936) starring Gary Cooper. ""Opera Hat"" later was turned into the short-lived television series ""Mr. Deeds Goes to Town"" (1969–70), and the movie ""Mr. Deeds"" (2002). One of Kelland's best-known characters was featured in the ""Scattergood Baines"" series of six films from 1941 to 1943, starring Guy Kibbee. Kelland was born in Portland, Michigan, and attended public schools in Detroit. After completing two years of high school, he took a job in a chair factory, studying law at night. He earned a law degree from Detroit College of Law in 1902, but practiced law for less than"
"on the recommendation of his friend Colonel David Hackworth; Webb then rang Friedkin to say how much he liked it. Rules of Engagement (film) Rules of Engagement is a 2000 American war film directed by William Friedkin, written by Jim Webb and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson plays U.S. Marine Colonel Terry Childers, who is brought to court-martial after men under Childers' orders kill a large number of civilians outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen. In 1968, a disastrous American advance in the Vietnam War has Lieutenant Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) executing an unarmed prisoner"
"Who"" (in the serial ""Timelash""), ""C.A.T.S. Eyes"", ""Dempsey and Makepeace"", ""The Bill"", ""Prime Suspect"", ""Lovejoy"", ""Casualty"", ""Doctors"" and ""London's Burning"". Eric Deacon Eric Deacon (born 25 May 1950 in Oxford, Oxfordshire) is an English actor perhaps best known for his role in the 1985 film ""A Zed & Two Noughts"", directed by Peter Greenaway, in which he acted alongside his brother Brian. He trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and in repertory theatre. His other film roles include ""The Sex Thief"" (1973), ""It Could Happen to You"" (1975), ""À nous les petites Anglaises"" (1976),"
"Steven Brill (director) Steven Brill (born May 27, 1962) is an American actor, film producer, director, and screenwriter. He directed and co-wrote ""Little Nicky"" and directed ""Mr. Deeds"", ""Without A Paddle"", ""Heavyweights"", and ""Drillbit Taylor"". He has had cameo roles in all three ""Mighty Ducks"" movies, and appeared in ""The Wedding Singer"", ""Mr. Deeds"" and ""Knocked Up"", although his role in the latter has been miscredited to Judd Apatow. He also appeared as the Barfly in ""Sex, Lies, and Videotape"". As a director, Brill was one of the central players (alongside Harvey Weinstein) in the 2007/2008 ""Fanboys"" reshoot/editing controversy. Brill"
"Desert Saints Desert Saints is a 2002 crime thriller film starring Kiefer Sutherland as a hitman named Arthur Banks, alongside Melora Walters as Agent Bennie Harper. The film is produced by Meg Ryan. Arthur Banks (Kiefer Sutherland) is an Ivy League-educated hitman for Latin American drug cartels who picks up solitary women, uses them as cover for a hit, then kills them. His trademark is a bullet with a tungsten core. Over the years, he has become wary of the FBI's attempts to catch him, including by use of satellite and security cameras, which leads him to mostly stay in"
"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (a.k.a. A Gentleman Goes to Town and Opera Hat) is a 1936 American romantic comedy film directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. Based on the 1935 short story ""Opera Hat"" by Clarence Budington Kelland, which appeared in serial form in ""The American Magazine"", the screenplay was written by Robert Riskin in his fifth collaboration with Frank Capra. During the Great Depression, Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), the co-owner of a tallow works, part-time greeting card poet, and tuba-playing inhabitant of the (fictional)"
"Slice Trilogy, and a self-published book ""100 Homies and Phonies of Hollywood"". Pierre Edwards Pierre Edwards known as Pierre, is an American actor, director, writer, and stand-up comedian. Pierre is best known for producing, writing, directing, and starring as Dre Mitchell in ""For Da Love of Money"" (2002), """" (2000), ""How to Be a Player"" (1997), and ""B*A*P*S"" (1997). Born to a German mother and American soldier, Pierre was born on May 7 in Killeen, Texas . He was 3 weeks old when his family moved to Germany. At age eleven he moved back to the United States of America,"
"graduated from Boston University's Film School. There he studied with poet Derek Walcott and collaborated with Marc Maron on screenplays and standup comedy during a tumultuous formative period discussed on the 500th episode of WTF with Marc Maron. Steven Brill (director) Steven Brill (born May 27, 1962) is an American actor, film producer, director, and screenwriter. He directed and co-wrote ""Little Nicky"" and directed ""Mr. Deeds"", ""Without A Paddle"", ""Heavyweights"", and ""Drillbit Taylor"". He has had cameo roles in all three ""Mighty Ducks"" movies, and appeared in ""The Wedding Singer"", ""Mr. Deeds"" and ""Knocked Up"", although his role in the"
"The Rules of Attraction (film) The Rules of Attraction is a 2002 black comedy drama film written and directed by Roger Avary, based on the novel of the same name by Bret Easton Ellis. It stars James van der Beek, Shannyn Sossamon, Ian Somerhalder, Jessica Biel, Kate Bosworth, and Kip Pardue. Set in the fictional Camden College in New Hampshire, the film opens at the ""End of the World"" party, where students Lauren Hynde, Paul Denton, and Sean Bateman give apathetic interior monologues on their lives and briefly exchange glances with one another. Lauren, previously a virgin, takes a film"
"partner of Tide and everything runs smoothly until Wind finds out that the unit only operates as human-ghost partnerships, so in order for the pair to continue working for 2002, one of them must die. The film had a brief running in the United Kingdom on the short-lived TV channel CNX. 2002 (film) 2002 is a Hong Kong science fiction action film directed by Wilson Yip and starring Nicholas Tse and Stephen Fung Tide Yau is a special agent from a police force known as 2002. He, however, is not an ordinary police officer and has the ability to see"
"Changing Lanes Changing Lanes is a 2002 American drama thriller film directed by Roger Michell and starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L. Jackson. The film follows a successful, young Wall Street lawyer (Affleck) who accidentally crashes his car into a vehicle driven by a middle-aged, recovering alcoholic insurance salesman (Jackson). After the lawyer leaves the scene of the accident, the two men try to get back at each other, engaging in a variety of immoral and illegal actions that end up having a major impact on each man's life. The film was released on April 12, 2002 in North America"
"Signs (film) Signs is a 2002 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan and executive produced by Shyamalan, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy and Sam Mercer. A joint collective effort to commit to the film's production was made by Blinding Edge Pictures and The Kennedy/Marshall Company. It was commercially distributed by Touchstone Pictures theatrically, and by Touchstone Home Entertainment in home media format. Its story focuses on a former Episcopal priest named Graham Hess, played by Mel Gibson, who discovers a series of crop circles in his cornfield. Hess slowly discovers that the phenomena is a"
"Maurice Roëves Maurice Roëves () is a film and television actor. His television roles include ""The Sweeney"" (1975), ""Danger UXB"" (1979), ""The Nightmare Man"" (1981), the 1984 ""Doctor Who"" serial ""The Caves of Androzani"", ""Days of Our Lives"" (1986), ""North and South"" (1985), ""Tutti Frutti"" (1987), ""Rab C. Nesbitt"" (1990), ""The New Statesman"" (1990), ""Spender"" (1991), """" (1993), the BBC adaptation of ""Vanity Fair"" (1998), ""EastEnders"" (2003), ""A Touch of Frost"" (2003) and ""Skins"" (2008). He also played Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield in the 1996 television film ""Hillsborough"". In 2006 he starred in the BBC docudrama ""Surviving Disasters"", portraying Sir"
"Shooters (2002 film) Shooters is a 2002 British crime drama film from directors Colin Teague and Glenn Durfort, and writers Andrew Howard, Louis Dempsey and Gary Young. It was filmed in London in 1999 and released theatrically in the UK on 25 January 2002. In addition to co-writing the screenplay, Howard and Dempsey also play the film's two leading roles. After six years behind bars, Gilly (Dempsey) wants to settle down and live a quiet life. But it is not to be. He is released from prison only to find that his crime partner J (Howard) has invested all their"
"Aberdeen (2000 film) Aberdeen is a 2000 Norwegian-British drama film directed by Hans Petter Moland, starring Stellan Skarsgård, Lena Headey and Charlotte Rampling. Lawyer Kaisa Heller, just promoted, has no apparent emotional attachments, preferring nameless encounters with men. She is surprised to receive a call from Helen, her dying mother, with a final request to bring Kaisa's estranged father Tomas to see her at the hospital. The film is a bit of a road movie with encounters along the way, some confrontational, such as boozing louts who harass her father or angry stewardesses issuing ultimatums, while some are romantic, such"
"Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. The soundtrack album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. The Hours (film) The Hours is a 2002 British-American drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore. Supporting roles are played by Ed Harris, John C. Reilly, Stephen Dillane, Jeff Daniels, Miranda Richardson, Allison Janney, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, and Eileen Atkins. The screenplay by David Hare is based on Michael Cunningham's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title. The plot focuses"
"2: Destination London. Agent Cody Banks Agent Cody Banks is a 2003 American spy comedy film directed by Harald Zwart. It follows the adventures of the 15-year-old title character, played by Frankie Muniz, who has to finish his chores, avoid getting grounded, and save the world by going undercover for the CIA as a James Bond type superspy. Hilary Duff, Angie Harmon, Keith David, Cynthia Stevenson, Daniel Roebuck, Darrell Hammond, Ian McShane, and Arnold Vosloo co-star. The film was filmed in British Columbia and was released in the United States on March 14, 2003. This film was the first major"
"""Sweeney Todd"", jointly produced by DreamWorks and Warner Bros., was released on December 21, 2007. Tim Burton directed from a screenplay by John Logan. It stars Johnny Depp as Todd (Depp received an Oscar nomination and a Golden Globe Award for his performance), Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin, Sacha Baron Cohen as Signor Pirelli, Jamie Campbell Bower as Anthony Hope, Laura Michelle Kelly as The Beggar Woman, Jayne Wisener as Johanna, Ed Sanders as Toby, and Timothy Spall as Beadle Bamford. The film was well-received by critics and theatregoers and also won the Golden"