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Through his 1936 film, Capra asks: What if you did wind up a millionaire overnight? Would you party hard? Or would you share your luck with others?

What to watch: 10 Winona Ryder roles beyond Stranger Things. Teens and tweens who love Winona Ryder as badass middle-aged mom Joyce Beyers on Stranger Things might be surprised to learn the 50-year-old actress was the It Girl of the 1980s and 90s, playing a string of smart, sardonic and iconic young women in some of the eras best-loved films.

At one point during the long ordeal of "Mr. Deeds," it is said of the Adam Sandler character, "He doesnt share our sense of ironic detachment." Is this a private joke by the writer? If theres is one thing Sandlers Mr. Deeds has, its ironic detachment. Like so many Sandler characters, he seems fundamentally insincere, to be aiming for the laugh even at serious moments. Since the 1936 Frank Capra film "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" was above all sincere, we wonder how this project was chosen; did Adam ...