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Video Business, March, 2006 by Hulse, Ed
Fun With Dick and Jane Sony, color, PG-13, 90 min. plus supplements, widescreen and fullscreen, Dolby Digital 5.1, Street: April 11, $28.95; First Run: W, Dec. 2005, $110 mil.
Successful at the box office despite withering reviews, this remake of the 1977 comedy starring George Segal and Jane Fonda seems timely in an age of widespread corporate malfeasance and conspicuous consumer consumption. In this version, Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni star as upwardly mobile suburbanites who face bankruptcy when Carrey loses his high-profile job with an imploding multi-national corporation. Rather than sacrifice their comfortable lifestyle, the couple takes up armed robbery. Sony's stripped-down DVD release features less than 20 minutes of bonus material (aside from the...
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