Fun with Dick and Jane Dean Parisot Digital Life DVD

Fun with Dick and Jane
starring: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins, Angie Harmon
directed by: Dean Parisot

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
EAN: 0043396102286
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 7180
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: December 21, 2005

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Description:
Fun With Dick And Jane provides comic relief alongside a relevant look at today’s corporate scandals. In the film, Dick Harpers’ (Carrey) years of hard work finally pay off when he is promoted to vice president of Globodyne, a worldwide business leader. After exactly one day at his new job, Globodyne is destroyed, leaving him and his loving wife, Jane (Leoni) without financial security. This sudden reversal of fortune has left them both unprepared to give up their comfortable lifestyle and Dick comes up with the brilliant idea of turning to robbery to pay the bills. Utilizing newfound skills, Dick and Jane exact hilarious revenge while teaching big business a lesson.

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Remakes are always a gamble, so it's a pleasant surprise that Fun with Dick and Jane pays off with unexpected dividends. It's as entertaining as the 1977 original starring George Segal and Jane Fonda, and the teaming of Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni makes this a safe bet for comedy fans, in spite of a slapstick screenplay that fails to achieve its fullest potential. Rather than attempt a darkly comedic send-up of the Enron scandal that left thousands of stockholders in financial ruin, director Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest) opts for a lighter, more accessible (read: commercial) satire of corporate greed and cynicism, beginning in the year 2000 when Dick (Carrey) gets a plum promotion as a mega-corporate communications director just as his boss (Alec Baldwin) is preparing to bail out before stock prices plummet. Dick's wife Jane (Leoni) has quit her job as a travel agent, so the corporate bombshell leaves them penniless and desperate, resorting to petty thievery and, eventually, plotting high-stakes revenge against the greedy executives who ruined their lives. As a send-up of financial distress in a ravaged post-Enron economy, Fun with Dick and Jane delivers laughs with just enough pointed humor to give it a strong satirical edge, and Carrey's reliable brand of zaniness is controlled enough to balance nicely with Leoni's more subtle (and woefully underrated) skills as a screen comedienne. And while the 'special thanks' end-credits hint at the sharper, more biting satire this might have been, there’s enough fun with Dick and Jane to make this recycled comedy worth a look. --Jeff Shannon

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Fun With Dick andJane
This movie is one that I bought, sold at a flea market and bought again. It seems to run with the same theme of my life...unemployment. My employment continuum seems to run with failing businesses. I get a kick out of the antics and I love the plot because I really identify with it. Its like like having the flu, laughing at someone coming down with it, also. Sick? No. Well, I laugh or cry. I choose laugh. I received it a day ahead of when promised. It has kept me laughing with the 4th job loss in as many years. Stimulate the economy? Bail out the middle class!

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- A fantastic movie!
My wife and I saw this movie in the theater and thought it was one of the funniest movies we had seen in a long time. The movie is a remake but regardless it is put together great. The movie had even more meaning to me recently when the company I work for tanked, not at all like the company in the movie and I was out of a job. "Must have been at the right place at the wrong time" is one of the lines you hear in the movie and boy was that right. The movie is full of funny scenes, lots of humor and no matter what is going on in your life this is the type of movie that can make you smile and laugh no matter how many times you watch it. I do recommend this movie. It's a must see!

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- Exactly What I Asked For
The product was on time, in original wrapping, and free of damages. It's exactly what I asked (and paid) for.

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- Interesting mix
This movie is an interesting mix of a funny comedy about people who turn to silly stuff when they lose everything and a more serious coverage of corporate scandals. I'm giving the movie 4 stars because in a few places this disparity seems a little out of place, but in most cases, it works fairly well. Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni are pretty humorous and convincing as the main characters, and the whole corporate scene is done well, even if it isn't necessarily totally realistic. I would say the only odd thing about the movie is that after robbing numerous banks and other institutions, not only do the main characters not get caught, but they actually end up being heroes. For me, the ending in which a "thank-you" is offered in the credits to all the companies in the real world that were involved in scandals kind of makes the movie seem more meaningful.

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