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Fun with Dick and Jane is a 2005 film, a remake of a 1977 film. In it, an upper-middle class couple, Dick and Jane Harper, turn to robbery after Dick's company goes bankrupt and they run out of money. It stars Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni as the title roles.

The film can be seen almost as a satirical view of Corporate America especially in the CEO of Dick's company.

Plot Summary

In the year 2000 (before the corporate accounting scandals of 2001), Dick works for a company called Globodyne. He is "promoted" to Vice-President of Communications. He then appears on the show Money Talk, where the host and Ralph Nader blast him, the CEO, the CFO, and the company as a whole. Almost instantly the company's stock is worthless and the employees' pensions (in Globodyne stock) are diluted.

In the months that follow, Dick cannot find a job, and the family gets poorer and poorer.

Desperate, Dick and Jane go on a crime spree which ends with them pitting their wits against the CEO of Globodyne and ultimately duping him into reimbursing employee pensions.

Reaction

After a disappointing opening weekend of $21,530,160, the film managed to have decent legs throughout the holiday season, eventually grossing over $110 million at the domestic box office. With a budget of over $100 million, the film was a minor success but was considered a disappointment by many. Critical reaction was generally less than favorable, with many calling it one of Jim Carrey's worst films.

Trivia

The financial transaction form used in the film's final scenes is identified as a CRM-114, referencing an encryption device from Dr. Strangelove
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Dick's company Globodyne, and the way it falls, is a direct parody of Enron.
When Dick pulls into the parking lot for Globdyne, everybody but him drives a BMW 7 Series. Dick himself has a BMW 3 Series. He later buys a BMW 7 Series, which gets traded for a Ford Festiva and he has a Volkswagen Cabrio at the end.

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