Fun with Dick and Jane (2005 film)

Dick and Jane (Original Title: Fun with Dick and Jane ) is an American comedy film directed by Dean Parisot 's 2005 The comedy is a remake of the film The money is on the road from 1977 ( original title also Fun with Dick. and Jane ) in which George Segal and Jane Fonda played the lead roles.

Action

Dick Harper is a successful senior executive with the company Globodyne, his wife Jane works in a travel agency. The two have a Mexican housekeeper, who almost alone taking care of her son, so he mainly speaks Spanish. Dick is transported surprising as the new head of PR, while his wife was on the advice of Dick quits her job. Already during the first television interviews, in which the unprepared colon must answer questions, it turns out that Globodyne is bankrupt. The shares of the company fall into a bottomless pit and thickness, as well as his entire colleagues, then be unemployed.

The couple is in the following job search for months far from successful. Gradually, Dick and Jane out of money and they even have to sell their household goods. The power is turned off and since they also get no more water, imagine soaped before the lawn sprinklers of the neighbors. Then they start a series of robberies that runs initially with little success - but soon they are getting better. By a former Globodyne staff the executive suite Dick learns that the owner of the company, McCallister, let drain away huge sums of money from the corporate office, which the bankruptcy was caused. Dick and Jane do it with his help, tricky to on a bench deposited around 400 million U.S. dollars to enter. With the money the former employees and workers will be compensated by Globodyne, while the ex-boss gets nothing in the end.

Reviews

" Convincingly played remake of the comedy The money is on the road " (1977), the pretty satirical swipes at the "American way of life" hands out and seamlessly fits into the current post - New Economy Era. "

" In Dean Paritsots slapstick comedy " Dick and Jane " a critical view of corporate greed and philistinism is combined with pleasant humor. "

" Negligible - What starts out as a still reasonably fun social satire, tipping more and more into an over-excited, annoying dud. If you like the one-man shows from dauergrimassierenden Jim Carrey, is in good hands here. For the rest applies: some funny gags do not make a good movie. So here is the second part of the German subtitle was a forethought. (Dick and Jane: Ready for anything, good for nothing ) " "

Background

Both the original title of the original film from 1977 as well as the title of remake refer to the title of the U.S. Reading Primer series Dick and Jane and the book Fun with Dick and Jane from The summit series. The reading learning fibulae were used from the 1930s to the 1970s.

The production amounted to about 100 million U.S. dollars. For the role of Jane Cameron Diaz was originally intended, but resigned due to time constraints from the film project. In Germany the film attracted 900,000 viewers in the cinemas. In the cinema of the United States, he played a 110 million U.S. dollars.

The fictitious company Globodyne and be described in the movie downfall form a direct parody of various companies at the beginning of the 21st century. The film ends with a former colleague of Dick Harper now working at Enron and there make a lot of money. Enron went bankrupt in 2001 after extensive accounting fraud and caused a loss of over $ 60 billion one of the greatest scandals in U.S. economic history. After this last scene of the guy starts with a satirical thanks to the CEO of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, ImClone Systems, Arthur Andersen, Cendant and HealthSouth.

2005 in film Screenplay Judd Apatow Nicholas Stoller Peter Tolan Film score Don Zimmerman (film editor) Richard Burgi Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture
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