Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

6.2PG-1390 minDirector: Dean Parisot

Comedy film by Dean Parisot

Fun with Dick and Jane (stylized in marketing as Fun with Dick & Jane) is a 2005 American crime comedy film directed by Dean Parisot from a screenplay by Judd Apatow and Nicholas Stoller. A remake of the 1977 film of the same name, the film stars Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni as a married, middle-class couple who, after the husband's employer goes bankrupt, struggle to maintain jobs before eventually resorting to robberies. Alec Baldwin and Richard Jenkins also star, and James Whitmore appears in an uncredited cameo in one of his final roles.

Fun with Dick and Jane was released by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label on December 21, 2005, and grossed over $204 million worldwide at the box office. The film received mixed reviews from critics. It was the third collaboration between Carrey and producer Brian Grazer, after Liar Liar (1997) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000).

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What is Fun with Dick and Jane about?
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) — And just like that, Globodyne Corporation--the big media institution where the affluent suburbanite and the company's Vice President, Dick Harper, works--collapses in a grand scandal, Enron-style. To make matters worse, in the worst possible time, Dick's stressed-out travel agent
Is Fun with Dick and Jane based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Fun with Dick and Jane scary?
Content rating: PG-13. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.