Dick and Jane

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Movie
German title Dick and Jane
Original title Fun with Dick and Jane
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length about 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Dean Parisot
script Judd Apatow ,
Nicholas Stoller ,
Peter Tolan
production Peter Bart ,
Jane Bartelme ,
Jim Carrey ,
Max Palevsky
music Theodore Shapiro
camera Jerzy Zieliński
cut Don Zimmerman
occupation

Dick and Jane (Original title: Fun with Dick and Jane ) is an American comedy film of director Dean Parisot from the year 2005 . In the German-speaking area, two different subtitles were also used for the film title. On the one hand , ready for anything, of no use , and on the other hand it's better to steal well than earn poorly . The comedy is a remake of the film Money is on the Street from 1977 (original title also Fun with Dick and Jane ), in which George Segal and Jane Fonda played the leading roles.

action

Dick Harper is a successful executive at Globodyne and his wife, Jane, works in a travel agency. The two have a Mexican housekeeper who takes care of their son almost all by herself, which is why he mainly speaks Spanish. Dick is surprisingly promoted to the new head of PR, while his wife quits her job on Dick's advice. Already during the first television interview, in which the unprepared Dick has to answer questions, it turns out that Globodyne is bankrupt. The company's shares plummeted and Dick, like all of his colleagues, became unemployed.

The couple is anything but successful in their subsequent job search for months. Little by little, Dick and Jane run out of money and they even have to sell their household effects. The electricity is turned off and since they cannot get any more water, they stand soaped in front of the neighbors' lawn sprinklers. Then they start a series of robberies that are not very successful at first - but soon they get better and better. Dick learns from a former Globodyne executive on the floor that the company's owner, McCallister, has been draining huge sums of money from the company's coffers, causing the bankruptcy. With his help, Dick and Jane manage to get to the approximately 400 million US dollars deposited in a bank. In the end, the money is used to compensate the former employees and workers of Globodyne , while the ex-boss gets nothing .

Reviews

"A convincingly staged remake of the comedy 'Das Geld geht auf der Straße' (1977), which hands out pretty satirical swipes at the 'American way of life' and blends in seamlessly with the current post-new economy era."

- Lexicon of international film

"In Dean Paritsot's slapstick comedy 'Dick and Jane', a critical consideration of entrepreneurial greed and philistineism is combined with a pleasant amount of humor."

- filmstarts.de

“ Unimportant - What starts out as a halfway fun social satire, is tipping more and more into over-the-top, annoying clothes. Those who like the one-man shows from the constantly grimacing Jim Carrey are in good hands here. For the rest, a few funny gags don't make a good film. So here the second part of the German subtitle was already a wise foresight. "

- prisma.de

backgrounds

Both the original title of the original film from 1977 and the title of the remake refer to the title of the US reading primer series Dick and Jane and the book Fun with Dick and Jane from the same series. The reading primers were used from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Production costs were approximately 100 million US dollars . Cameron Diaz was originally intended for the role of Jane, but she left the film project due to time constraints. In Germany, the film attracted around 900,000 viewers to the cinemas. It grossed around 110 million US dollars in cinemas in the United States.

The fictional company Globodyne and its demise described in the film are a direct parody of various companies at the beginning of the 21st century. The film ends with a former colleague of Dick Harper's now working at Enron and making a lot of money there. Enron went bankrupt in 2001 after extensive balance sheet falsification and caused one of the biggest scandals in US economic history with losses of more than 60 billion dollars. After this last scene, the credits begin with satirical thanks to the managing directors of Enron, WorldCom, Tyco , Adelphia, ImClone Systems, Arthur Andersen , Cendant and HealthSouth.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Dick and Jane . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2005 (PDF; test number: 104 679 K).
  2. ↑ Age ratings for Dick and Jane . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Dick and Jane - Ready for anything, useless for anything on moviepilot.de
  4. ↑ Dick and Jane on kino.de
  5. ↑ Dick and Jane. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Filmstarts.de
  7. ↑ prisma.de
  8. ^ Box office / business for fun with Dick and Jane