Fun With Dick and Jane

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nick s This comedy had some fun moments. But the humour was a little hit and miss. The opening credits were great; the acting was good. Some story elements were a bit over the top. Not sure about the morality of the whole thing. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/21/23 Full Review Andre G Interesting movie. It's a shame that there's lives got ruined. This what they resorted to. Different type of roll to see Jim Carey in. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 05/18/23 Full Review jon c The perfect tribute to human ingenuity The late George Segal and Jane Fonda star as Dick & Jane, like any married couple they have the best life has to offer from good jobs to a nice house to a loving child But all that falls apart when they get fired, lose their pool, their mortgage, and are flat out broke So they turn to becoming the generation's Bonnie & Clyde of San Fernando The remake wasn't that funny but this one has the likable charm of Segal and Fonda at the helm It's also a relatable dilemma they find themselves in Any couple falling on hard financial times would resort to crime to combat their debts Who knew these two would have fun doing things they'd never imagine to get out of such scrapes? I did chuckle a few times at their shenanigans of course more belly-inducing laughs would've been welcome This version is way more endearing and realistic than the 2005 remake that's for sure Fonda and Segal make the sly romantic stick-em up couple Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Dick and Jane Harper (George Segal and Jane Fonda) were living the American dream, but when Dick's aerospace job got liquidated due to the fuzzy accounting of his boss Charlie Blanchard (Ed McMahon, and if you think I'm not doing a week of movies that Ed was in, you don't know me) and have to suddenly figure out how to save everything they have, even if Jane's parents believe that poverty is going to be the best lesson they can ever receive. The best answer to their problems? A life of crime. While Dick and Jane try to keep the people they're stealing from to be those even more on the wrong side of the law than them, they still worry that they're getting too used to being criminals. Can they give it up? Or is the lure of easy money just too much? This movie was based on a story by Gerard Gaiser, which was scripted by David Giler (who wrote Myra Breckinridge and The Parallax View, as well as serving as the producer and rewriter of Alien as part of his partnership with Walter Hill), Jerry Belson (who popularized the line, "When you assume…" in a script he wrote for The Odd Couple) and Mordecai Richler. It's directed by Ted Kotcheff, whose career is all over every genre, from the scares of Wake In Fright to the sports film North Dallas Forty, the original Rambo movie First Blood and Weekend at Bernie's. That said — this has a homophobic scene followed by George Segal in blackface, so…1977 everybody. A year I was alive in, can remember and yes, it's even more racist today, so we've made progress. Not enough progress, but some. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member Like a crappy 70s sitcom, complete with Hispanic stereotypes. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member While the movie politically is clearly not on the side of Dick and Jane, ideologically it doesn't know any side but Dick and Jane's, reproducing the prototypical consumerist perversity of trying to eat cake and have it too. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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