When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling within a different of dough. Moving towards the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning with regards to slice of the action. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to undertake an expos? on Deeds. Of course, Deeds sincere naivet? has Babe falling deeply in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds involves realize that money truly has the ability to modify things, but it doesn t necessarily should change him.