Fun With Dick and Jane (2005)

"Jim Carrey is the funniest man in America!  Kyle Osborne, WJLA-TV, WASHINGTON D.C.
"Jim Carrey at his best.  Mark S. Allen, CBS Television Stations Group
"A pitch-perfect farce for the post-Enron era.  Logan Hill, New York Magazine
"Alec Baldwin and Richard Jenkins do a merciless job of playing characters   Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"It's a consistently funny script, tastefully packaged by super-producer Brian Grazer and directed with just the right touch by Dean Parisot.   William Arnold, Seatle Post-Intelligencer

Editor's Note Dick (Jim Carrey) and Jane (Teá Leoni) are a typical suburban couple. They have a nice house in a development, she works as a travel agent to supplement his white-collar income, and their son's first language is Spanish thanks to spending so much time with nanny Blanca (Gloria Garayua). Things change in the blink of an eye when Dick is promoted to vice president of communications at Globodyne, where he has worked for years. His first order of business: to appear on a popular news show about business and money and lend his magic touch to news of Globodyne's earnings. But Dick doesn't know that Globodyne is about to tank, and in the midst of his interview the situation goes from bad to horrendous and he becomes the scapegoat. In the blink of an eye he is unemployed, his pension is bust, and he can't find a job to save his life. Their front lawn is even repossessed. To make matters worse, Jane quit her job as soon as Dick was promoted, their house has lost value, and their savings was in Globodyne stock. Months later the Harpers find themselves in increasingly dire straits. They resort to paying their nanny with appliances, selling all of their possessions and are facing foreclosure on their house when Dick has a brainstorm: he'll start to steal. Jane joins him, and soon the duo is dressing in elaborate costumes and robbing local businesses and homes. When their final job goes bust, they decide to go for the big heist: scamming Globodyne president Jack McAllister (Alec Baldwin) out of his stolen fortune. Dean Parisot (HOME FRIES) directs this remake of the 1977 film of the same name, which has been cheekily updated to incorporate the phenomenon of white-collar crime. Richard Jenkins and Carlos Jacott round out the cast.

	Alec Baldwin
	Jim Carrey
	Richard Jenkins
	Tea Leoni
	Brian Grazer - Producer
	Dean Parisot - Director
	Don Zimmerman - Editor
	Jerzy Zielinski - Cinematographer
	Peter Bart - Executive Producer
	Peter Tolan - Writer
	Theodore Shapiro - Original Music By

Uncut
3 stars out of 5 -- "Leoni has some fine comic moments, and the satirical targets -- the media, suburban ennui, plastic surgery -- are cleverly demolished." 03/01/2006 p.128

Sight and Sound
"[T]o be applauded for its topical twist....[A] good-natured piece." 03/01/2006 p.57-58

Washington Post 7 of 10
But most of the humor in "Fun With Dick and Jane" derives less from the capers themselves than from the setup and its time frame of the year 2000, when Bush was still running against Gore and no one had yet heard of Ken Lay, Bernie Ebbers or Richard Scrushy. (Who along with their corporate companions are conspicuously thanked in the movie's closing credits.) - Ann Hornaday

Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
There is a large but unexploited comic premise here: One of the largest corporations in America turned out to be worth less than zero and was built from a tissue of lies. Alec Baldwin and Richard Jenkins do a merciless job of playing characters who we may, for convenience, assume are inspired by Enron's fallen giants Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. - Roger Ebert