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The day before Globodyne's stock tanks, a la Enron, and its pension fund evaporates, the corporation's CEO and CFO set up middle manager Dick Harper to be the public face of the disaster. Jobless, and with no savings, pension, or home equity, Dick and his wife Jane sink slowly into poverty. He looks for work (as do all former Globodyne executives); he even tries day labor with the relatives of their Mexican nanny. A foreclosure notice sends Dick and Jane over the edge into a life of blue-collar crime. Then, as things finally look up, the report of an looming indictment pushes Dick and Jane toward a denouement wit...
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h the real criminals, the white-collar guys.
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Wanneer Dick Harper gepromoveerd wordt tot hoofd communicatie bij het bedrijf Globodyne, zijn hij en zijn vrouw Jane door het dolle heen. Eindelijk hoeven ze zich geen zorgen meer te maken over geld en kan Jane stoppen met werken om thuis te moederen over zoontje Billy. Helaas blijkt dit toekomstbeeld al snel een illusie, want de volgende dag gaat Globodyne op verdachte wijze failliet. Aangezien Jane haar baan al heeft opgezegd, staan de Harpers er beroerd voor. De eerste maanden kunnen ze nog redelijk in hun behoeften voorzien, maar wanneer het water hun echt aan de lippen staat, lijkt het criminele pad onvermij...
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A not-so-ordinary family finds a new way of paying the bills in this comedy. Dick Harper (Jim Carrey) and his wife, Jane (Téa Leoni), would seem to have it made -- Dick has a high-paying job, they live in an expensive house in the suburbs, they have two luxury cars in the driveway, and a housekeeper, Blanca (Gloria Garayua), to help look after their son, Billy. But Dick and Jane's fairy-tale life crashes head-on into reality when the firm Dick works for turns out to have been using unscrupulous accounting methods to disguise the fact they've been losing money hand over fist, and Dick has been made the fall guy f...
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or some of their dirty dealings. Suddenly flat broke, Dick and Jane must find a new way to support their lavish lifestyle, and in time they discover just the thing -- crime. A remake of Ted Kotcheff's 1977 hit (which helped re-launch Jane Fonda's screen career), Fun With Dick and Jane also stars Alec Baldwin, John Michael Higgins, and Angie Harmon.
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Dick Harper's years of hard work finally pay off when he is promoted to vice president at Globodyne, a worldwide leader in the consolidation of media properties. But, after exactly one day in his new job, Globodyne is destroyed by an Enron-like calamity -- and he is left holding the bag. Dick's sudden reversal of fortune has left him little time to set money aside for a rainy day. Now, it's raining buckets. Dick and his loving wife Jane watch in horror as their deluxe suburban home, their luxury cars and their status-conscious friends quickly vanish into thin air. After playing by the rules and working single-min...
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dedly to build a comfortable life for his family, Dick is utterly unprepared to give up the American dream. Taking a lesson from his corrupt employer, however, Dick hits on a brilliant idea: If stealing was good enough for his boss, then it's good enough for him. Armed with this new perspective, he and Jane exact hilarious revenge and teach big business a lesson.
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Fun with Dick and Jane News Articles
Universal is currently working on three projects, two of which don't exactly interest us and a third, if done properly, could be incredibly entertaining. The first film will be produced by Jay Roach (“ Meet the Parents ,” “ Game Change ”) and will be written “ Little Fockers ” scribe Larry Stuckey . Being described as a “family action comedy,” the movie is about a couple who gives up their exciting lifestyle to have children only to have the husband mix his wife and kids up in a search for a hidden icon. Dean Parisot (“ Fun With Dick and Jane ”) is in talks to direct. No…
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