I'll admit to the occasional pang of envy when observing the lives of the idle rich. I try not to be a materialistic guy but I have to confess that the established image of the well-pressed and beautiful tooling around in exotic cars, jet-set traveling or just relaxing by the pool, with cocktail in hand, seems pretty nice to me.

Blink and you'll miss him.

...Still, "Mr. Deeds" is a movie that should not exist, sullying the memory of Capra and Gary Cooper's "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" while adding nothing worthy of its own. This new film shares the crude tone but generally decent heart of Sandler's...

...30 p.m. at Philips Arena in Atlanta. FRIDAY: Movie openings include Mr. Deeds, an update of the classic Mr. Deeds Goes to Town starring Adam Sandler as a sweet ignoramus who inherits a fortune and Winona Ryder as a greedy reporter; and...

HOLLYWOOD -- Not only did director Nick Willing want his version of Alice in Wonderland to be as faithful to the classic Lewis Carroll book as possible, he also wanted it to be a celebration of the artists who have been influenced by the British author's work.

Here's what critics are saying about recent movie releases.

...sole heir to a $40 billion fortune, inherited the weekend box-office crown. A remake of Frank Capra's "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," the movie debuted in the No. 1 spot with $37.2 million. The weekend's other new wide release, the...