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Fun with Dick and Jane
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Fun with Dick and Jane is a 2005 American heist comedy film directed by Dean Parisot and written by Judd Apatow and Nicholas Stoller. The screenplay is based on the original work of the same name. Produced by Brian Grazer and Jim Carrey, the movie features a cast including Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, and Richard Jenkins. It was produced by Imagine Entertainment and Columbia Pictures, with JC 23 Entertainment also credited as a production company.
The film has a runtime of 90 minutes and was filmed in Long Beach, California. Theodore Shapiro composed the score, while Don Zimmerman served as film editor. Julie Weiss designed the costumes, and Jerzy Zieliński handled cinematography. The budget was $100,000,000, resulting in box office revenue of $202,026,112. It was distributed by Netflix and released on December 21, 2005, with a later date of January 5, 2006. The original language is English.
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6.2After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.
Cast
- Jim Carrey as Dick Harper
- Téa Leoni as Jane Harper
- Alec Baldwin as Jack McCallister
- Richard Jenkins as Frank Bascombe
- John Michael Higgins as Garth
- Angie Harmon as Veronica Cleeman
Themes
- husband wife relationship
- based on novel or book
- robber
- hold-up robbery
- suburbia
- remake
- loss of job
- humiliation
- unemployment
- bankruptcy
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Dean Parisot
- Screenplay by
- Judd Apatow Nicholas Stoller
- Story by
- Judd Apatow Nicholas Stoller Gerald Gaiser
- Based on
- Fun with Dick and Jane , by David Giler Jerry Belson Mordecai Richler Gerald Gaiser
- Produced by
- Brian Grazer Jim Carrey
- Starring
- Jim Carrey Téa Leoni Alec Baldwin Richard Jenkins
- Cinematography
- Jerzy Zieliński
- Edited by
- Don Zimmerman
- Music by
- Theodore Shapiro
- Production companies
- Columbia Pictures Imagine Entertainment JC 23 Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- Release date
- December 21, 2005 ( 2005-12-21 )
- Running time
- 91 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $100 million
- Box office
- $204.7 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- detective film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- Fun with Dick and Jane
- Director
- Dean Parisot
- Screenwriter
- Nicholas Stoller
- Cast member
- Michelle Arthur
- Composer
- Theodore Shapiro
- Producer
- Jim Carrey
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures
- Cinematographer
- Jerzy Zieliński
- Narrative location
- California
- Filming location
- Long Beach
- Duration
- 90
- FilmAffinity ID
- 959818
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.sonypictures.com/movies/funwithdickandjane
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- publication date
- 2006-01-05
- title
- Fun with Dick and Jane
- film editor
- Don Zimmerman
- distributed by
- Netflix
- box office
- 202026112
- costume designer
- Julie Weiss
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 47/100
- capital cost
- 100000000
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Encyclopedic overview
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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