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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 53697
Released: December 6, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/06/2005 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Pg
Description of Fun with Dick and Jane:
Jane Fonda was so respected as a serious actress that her comedy chops sometimes were overlooked. But it should be remembered that her first real hits (Barefoot in the Park, Cat Ballou) were comedies. This underrated 1977 outing also played for laughs, though it had social-satire underpinnings that still ring true. Fonda and George Segal play an upwardly mobile couple in the time before yuppies--think of them as protoyuppies. But their status-oriented existence suffers what could be a fatal blow when hubby is maneuvered out of his job. Broke and unemployed, they become armed robbers--and discover that crime can pay for them to live in the style to which they've become accustomed. Segal and Fonda have a breezy ease as confused suburbanites who bring the same neurotic thoroughness to crime that they do to their careers. But the script (whose authors include Jerry Belson and Mordechai Richler) never uses either the Robin Hood angle or any other angle that could sustain a sharp edge; as a result, the comedy winds up more cute than knowing. --Marshall Fine
Fun with Dick and Jane Reviews:
COMIC RELIEF FOR TROUBLED TIMES. 
2009-09-18 - FAST PACED AND SNAPPY COMEDY. THE LIGHTER SIDE OF HARD TIMES. OVER THE YEARS I NEVER TIRED OF SEEING THE GUN PULLED OUT OF THE ALBUM JACKET
Lighthearted
2009-07-06 - "Fun with Dick & Jane" holds up quite well over 20 years after it was filmed. George Segal plays Dick Harper who is a high powered executive who suddenly finds himself unemployed. Segal plays Harper with a comic flair. Segal was nominated for a supporting Oscar for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Playing opposite of him is 7-time Oscar nominee and two time winner Jane Fonda. The comedy brings out a more lighthearted Jane than either of her award-winning pictures Klute or "Coming Home." One scene where Jane is on the toilet and talks matter-of-factly to her husband brought home how domestic the comedy is. Her scene as model at a banquet is as hilarious as it is disastrous. Ed McMahon who recently passed played the boss Charlie Blanchard who fires Dick and lies to Congress. The twist at the end leaves a smile on your face. A couple cameo performances are especially sweet for me. Hank Garcia in his only credited role that I know of played Raoul Esteban, the streetwise new friend of Dick. Robert Lussier who played on TV shows like "Bewitched" turns in a funny cameo as the unemployment clerk. While the film makes you root for this couple doing robberies, it seems to redeem itself by robbing Dick's old company that really deserved it! The DVD looks good in this release. Enjoy!
Still Hillarious After 32 Years! 
2009-07-06 - I've been watching this comedic masterpiece on Reels Channel, and decided I have to have a copy of my own sans commercials. This is so clever, funny and refreshing! It dwarfs the 2005 remake with Jim Carey. This is proof-positive that you can't remake an original and do it justice. I am laughing my head off. That never happened with the remake.
Best Version
2009-01-30 - There are at lease 2 or more versions of this movie.
This one has Jane sitting on the toilet when talking to Dick, and other clips that are cut out on the pg versions.
This one is the orginal.
Just like the one I saw in the show.
Enjoy.
Frank
Funny, funny film!
2008-11-21 - This is one of the funniest films to come out of Hollywood. Fonda does one of her finest jobs. This film is better than the remake with Jim Carrey.
