Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

Release date: 2005-12-21
Country: USA
Language: English|Spanish
Director: Dean Parisot
Production Co: Columbia Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, JC 23 Entertainment
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Rating: 6.1/10
Length: 1h 30min

Storyline

And just like that, Globodyne Corporation--the big media institution where the affluent suburbanite and the company's Vice President, Dick Harper, works--collapses in a grand scandal, Enron-style. To make matters worse, in the worst possible time, Dick's stressed-out travel agent wife, Jane, decides to quit her job--and if this isn't enough--their savings are gone, and nothing can stop Dick and Jane's downward spiral. Now, after a series of failed attempts to keep a job, the desperate and impoverished couple has only one method to stay afloat: to summon up the nerve and steal their way out of misery. However, are Dick and Jane cut out for a life of crime?

Plot Keywords

husband wife relationship, humiliation, father son relationship, comeuppance, car crash, bankruptcy, bank robbery, remake, robbery, marriage, black comedy, liquor store, loss of job, maid, character names in title, ceo, suburb, animal abuse, heist, unemployment

Short Review

A gummy remake of the George Segal/Jane Fonda 1977 comedy, this is evidently conceived as a showcase for Carrey's waning talents, but it suffers from a mouldy premise and the slightly unsavoury underlying message.