Fun with Dick and Jane (2005 film)

Fun with Dick and Jane
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Directed by	Dean Parisot
Produced by	Jim Carrey Brian Grazer
Screenplay by	Judd Apatow Nicholas Stoller
Story by	Judd Apatow Nicholas Stoller Gerald Gaiser
Based on	Fun with Dick and Jane (novel) by Gerald Gaiser Fun with Dick and Jane (film) by David Giler Jerry Belson Mordecai Richler
Starring	Jim Carrey Téa Leoni Alec Baldwin Richard Jenkins Gloria Garayua
Music by	Theodore Shapiro
Cinematography	Jerzy Zielinski
Edited by	Don Zimmerman
Production company	Imagine Entertainment
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	December 21, 2005
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$100 million
Box office	$202 million

Fun with Dick and Jane (novel)
by Gerald Gaiser

Fun with Dick and Jane is a 2005 American comedy film—a remake of the 1977 comedy film of the same name—that was directed by Dean Parisot, and written by Judd Apatow and Nicholas Stoller. It stars Jim Carrey and Téa Leoni as Dick and Jane Harper, an upper-middle-class couple who resort to robbery after the company for which Dick works goes bankrupt. Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins, Angie Harmon, John Michael Higgins, Richard Burgi, Carlos Jacott, Gloria Garayua, and Stephnie Weir also star. James Whitmore appears in an uncredited cameo; his final film appearance.

It was released by Columbia Pictures on December 21, 2005. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film grossed over US$202 million at the global box office.

In January 2000, Dick Harper (Jim Carrey) has been promoted to Vice President of Communications for the large media corporation Globodyne. The next day, he is asked on a television program in which host Sam Samuels and presidential candidate Ralph Nader call Dick and the company's employees "perverters of the American dream" and claim it helps the super-rich get even wealthier. As they speak, Globodyne's stock value falls rapidly; it and its employees' pensions, which are in Globodyne's stock, are soon worthless. Dick arrives home, where his wife Jane (Téa Leoni) tells him that she has quit her job as a travel agent after his promotion to spend more time with their son Billy. Dick breaks the news of the company's failure over the family's dinner, instantly alarming Jane. Despite his attempts, Dick is unable to get another VP job; Jane tells him the couple face bankruptcy because their assets are composed entirely of now-worthless Globodyne stock.