Jim Carrey – Information

Cast: Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Angie Harmon and Richard Jenkins.

Director: Dean Parisot.

Writers: Nicholas Stoller and Judd Apatow.

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Fun With Dick and Jane is a remake of the 1997 comedy which starred Jane Fonda and George Segal.

Dick Harper and his beautiful wife, Jane, are living the American dream - or so it seems.

Dick is a high-payed manager at a company called Globodyne and lives with Jane in a very expensive house in the suburbs. They have two luxury cars in the driveway, a newly built swimming pool in the garden and … in short … all the luxury money can buy … not to mention a housekeeper, Blanca (Gloria Garayua), to help look after their house and their son, Billy.

But Dick and Jane’s fairy-tale life comes crashing down head-on when the owners of Globodyne turn out to have been using illegal and unscrupulous accounting methods to disguise the fact they’ve been losing a lot of money (think: Enron).

To make things worse, Dick has been made the fall guy for Globodyne’s dirty dealings and is fired with shame.

Suddenly flat broke, Dick and Jane must find a brand new way to support their lavish lifestyle, and in time they discover just the thing – the life of crime!

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• Barry Sonnenfeld was set to direct the film, but bowed out citing personal reasons.
• Cameron Diaz was set to play Jane, but bowed out shortly before production due to scheduling conflicts.
• Paramount Pictures paid Sony over US$100,000 to interrupt filming of this movie for a week so that Jim Carrey could do promotional appearances for Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).
• During the INS raid, one of the workers has an ID that says he’s Opie Taylor. ‘Ron Howard’ played Opie Taylor on “The Andy Griffith Show” (1960). Ron’s brother, Clint Howard, has a cameo in that scene as one of the INS agents.
• During the Starbucks scene in this movie, Téa Leoni seriously injured her shoulder when her character slid over the counter.
• The end credits feature “Special Thanks” to corporations 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.
• When Jim Carrey is trying to print out another form, he hides in the roof rafters. He falls after attempting to get down. This really happened and he hit the floor very hard. Carrey and the director went with it and kept rolling.
• The convenience store Dick attempts to rob and the smoke shop he does rob are almost across the street from each other in North Hollywood.
• The scene with Alec Baldwin talking to the media during a duck shoot is a reference to a President Bush gaff where he talked about the war and then invited the press to watch his golf swing.
• The form at the Grand Cayman Bank is referred to as a CRM-114. This is the same identification given to items in many Stanley Kubrick movies.
• WILHELM SCREAM: In a deleted scene where Dick and Jane rob a toy store (available on the DVD), the stock scream can be heard two times – as an elderly security guard leaps towards Dick, and again as the guard is thrown out a window.
• In the scenes where the immigrants are running from INS, Jim Carrey screams out “La Migra”, which is Spanish slang for “The Immigration”. Actor Jullian Dulce Vida taught Jim to say that in between takes.