- Actors: Jane Fonda, George Segal, Ed McMahon, Richard Gautier, Allan Miller
- Directors: Ted Kotcheff
- Writers: David Giler, Gerald Gaiser, Jerry Belson, Mordecai Richler
- Producers: Marion Segal, Max Palevsky, Peter Bart
- Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
- Release Date: Dec 6 2005
- Run Time: 95 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000BITVA6
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#16,757 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
- #74 in DVD > Comedy > Comic Criminals
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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
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4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Fun with Dick and Jane (DVD)
FUN WITH DICK AND JANE came to a movie house near youto bring Jane back from Hanoi with a little bit of sugar to make the medicine slip down. Despite her vocal tension, la Fonda handles pregnant comedy with George Segal as well as heavy drama, as he did with Goldie of the next generation. This farce foreshadows ENRON like THE CHINA SYNDROME anticipated Three Mile Island. Dick and Jane are typical Middle 'Muricans living deep into next year's credit when loss of his job puts them down a burleque slide to LIFE STINKS. Until they decide that survival is the basis of morality. So they go into the growth business of armed robbery like the flip side of POLICE ACADEMY. Every fan will have a favourite screw-up, but the most telling and foretelling caper is their robbery of the telephone company. All the frustrated customers come on side with them like a rally for OCCUPY WALL STREET. No more BARBARELLA. Jane comes back a warrior for her causes. Besides, she needed money until she hooked up with Ted Turner. Way to go, Jane! You show us how to mature beautifully with the usual trials and tribulations, au naturel. The remake with Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni is consistently funnier without the insight, farsight, and oversight.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun With Dick And Jane,
By rascal (ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fun with Dick and Jane (DVD)
Very good movie. Nice to view a movie that has a comedy theme to it with no violence.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Columbia Home Vid Forgot the DELETED Scenes!!!,
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This review is from: Fun with Dick & Jane (DVD)
I loved this movie ever since i saw it when i was a kid.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 and Is NOT going to be included in the new DVD release. I didn't have a VCR at the time to timecapsule this extended version, It never was again! I hoped that it would make it's way onto DVD. Columbia why do this!!!!! that scene as I rembember it was one of the best scenes in the film and made it even more enjoying. Unhappy fan :(
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