An update of the 1977 comedy, Dick and Jane are living the good life. That is until Dick (Jim Carrey) loses his job shortly after getting a promotion that convinced his wife Jane (Téa Leoni) to quit her job. The money is gone, and the house ends up in foreclosure. Dick decides to turn to a hilarious life of crime to pay the bills with his lovely wife by his side...
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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 with the real criminals, the white-collar guys.
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Revealing mistakes:
The squirt gun is painted in pure black. All toy weapons have an orange marker to indicate (especially to law enforcement) that they are not real deadly weapons.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Dick Harper:
Globodyne is a consolidator of media properties. Globodyne is a consolidator of media properties. Consolidator. Consolidator.
[traffic light turns]
Dick Harper:
Oh, no!
Title card:
Run, Dick, Run Dick Harper:
Globodyne's a consolidator of media properties and data retrieval with a focus in fiber-optic content provision. It's basically a synergy of Web-based and platform-based UNIX-driven delivery systems. OK, I made that last part up. See more »
Crazy Credits
The end credits feature 'Special Thanks' to co-operations or persons who
were responsible/involved in some of the greatest financial collapses in
American business history, like Enron, Arthur Andersen, Worldcom or that
company's former CEO Bernie Ebbers.
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