This 1936 comedy, starring Gary Cooper and showing for a week at Film Forum, turns the tables on the period’s metropolitan melodramas. By J. Hoberman Around the dawn of the New Deal, a naïve bumpkin ...

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First, I'll get the obvious joke out of the way: No, Winona Ryder did not steal the new movie she's starring in, "Mr. Deeds." Yes, I know, it's an easy joke, but if you laughed, it's a successful joke ...