When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| George Segal | ... | Dick Harper | |
| Jane Fonda | ... | Jane Harper | |
| Ed McMahon | ... | Charlie Blanchard | |
| Dick Gautier | ... | Dr. Will | |
| Allan Miller | ... | Loan Company Manager | |
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Hank Garcia | ... | Raoul Esteban |
| John Dehner | ... | Jane's Father | |
| Walter Brooke | ... | Mr. Weeks | |
| Sean Frye | ... | Billy | |
| Mary Jackson | ... | Jane's Mother | |
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James Jeter | ... | Immigration Officer |
| Maxine Stuart | ... | Charles' Secretary | |
| Fred Willard | ... | Bob | |
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Selma Archerd | ... | Beverly Hills Matron |
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John Brandon | ... | Pete Winston |
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Manager Dick Harper and his attractive young wife Jane are used to a comfortable lifestyle. They just build a swimming-pool when Dick is fired very unexpectedly - leaving him with $70,000 debt on the house. They try to hide this from the neighbors and just cut down their expenses, but soon it's obvious: living from unemployment bonus drives them crazy, it's uncertain if they can keep the house. Dick doesn't see another way out than robbing drug stores - but this takes more skill than expected! Only as a team Dick and Jane can succeed. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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18 March 1977 (West Germany) See more »Also Known As:
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$3,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
$30,000,000, 31 December 1977Company Credits
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The model rocket seen in Charlie's office (on the table and on a shelf behind his desk) is a semi-scale model of a real rocket. It's a Nike-X (specifically a Nike Zeus B (XLIM-49A)), an Army rocket. The model (identified by the decal markings) was probably made from a model rocket kit produced by Estes in the '70s and '80s (starting in '75) which could actually fly. The launch pad which it is displayed on (on the shelf) is an Estes PortaPad. See more »Goofs
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Telephone customer: [Dick and Jane are robbing the phone company as the customers cheer] Someone's robbing the phone company. Bless you.See more »
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Opening and closing credits listed in the form of pages of a children's book. See more »Alternate Versions
Two additional scenes were added to the broadcast television premiere on ABC. One that stands out is a scene with Jane (Fonda) getting a job behind a cosmetics counter and having to confront a very difficult obese older female customer. This was a very funny scene that seems to now be lost forever and Is NOT going to be included in the new DVD release. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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It's a sign of the times (i.e., the 1970s) when Dick and Jane rob the telephone company at gunpoint and all the customers applaud. It's distinctly un-PC now, but very funny back then. As usual, it's a "Jane Fonda movie" that thinly conceals a social message underneath its comic scenario, but I didn't feel it got too preachy until near the finish-line. George Segal works very easily with Fonda, and there are some hugely funny scenes after an arduous opening wherein Segal loses his cushy job. The desperation of unemployment is touched upon briefly (for a comic effect), but there are some stabs at social commentary that do not work (as with two bad caveats involving a transsexual and a man with no vocal chords). But for every foul ball there comes along something fresh and groovy, like the sequence where Fonda acts her way out of neighborhood humiliation once the gardeners start rolling up her lawn, or when the gentleman from Food Stamps shows up at an inappropriate moment (a ritzy family dinner) confessing he just had a Big Mac and a Coke. **1/2 from ****