Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.3/10   

Director:

Ted Kotcheff

Escritores:

Gerald Gaiser (story)
David Giler (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

18 marzo 1977 (Alemania Occidental)

Género:

Comedia

Frase comercial:

Bonnie and Clyde they ain't.

Plot:

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Plot Keywords:

Unemployment | Robbery | Heist | Cynical | Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Amusing but lacking the sharp edges that I was hoping for

Reparto

George Segal	...	Dick Harper
Jane Fonda	...	Jane Harper
Ed McMahon	...	Charlie Blanchard
Richard Gautier	...	Dr. Will (as Dick Gautier)
Allan Miller	...	Loan Company Manager
Hank Garcia	...	Raoul Esteban
John Dehner	...	Jane's father
Mary Jackson	...	Jane's mother
Walter Brooke	...	Jim Weeks
Sean Frye	...	Billy Harper
James Jeter	...	Immigration officer
Maxine Stuart	...	Blanchard's secretary
Fred Willard	...	Bob
Selma Archard	...	Beverly Hills woman
John Brandon	...	Pete Winston

También conocida como:

Roba sin mirar a quién (Spain) [es]

Duración:

95 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Stereo

Clasificación:

Finland:K-16 (cut) (1977) | Australia:M | Singapore:PG | Iceland:L | South Korea:12 | UK:PG | Finland:K-15 (uncut) (2006) | Sweden:11 | USA:PG

Compañía:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivialidades:

Faye Dunaway turned down the role of Jane before it was offered to Jane Fonda.

Citas:

Dick Harper: Do you mind if I kiss you in a public place?
Jane Harper: I'd mind if you kissed me in a private place with all these people around.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "3rd Rock from the Sun: Fun with Dick and Janet: Part 2 (#3.2)" (1997)

Banda de Sonido:

Ahead of the Game

Amusing but lacking the sharp edges that I was hoping for

Dick and Jane Harper are happy and very well off; they have a dog, a son, a great house and Dick has a high-powered job as an aerospace company executive. However when the company hits a bumpy patch, Dick is laid off and very quickly the family is running up more debt than they can handle. Dick keeps trying to find work and even Jane leaves the family home to try and get a regular job type job. However things do not go that well and, as their possessions start to get repossessed, they get increasingly desperate.

Recently the subject of a remake (which I never bothered to see) this comedy is a sort of satire on the American dream and the attitudes of big business. Or at least that is what others have said. Personally I think it has a vague swipe at this but mainly it just settles for being a gentle caper that draws laughs from the unlikely descent of the middle classes into crime. It isn't anywhere near as sharp or caustic as I would have liked it to be but it flows along cheerily enough and entertained me reasonably well. Big laughs are few and far between but it is nicely comic for the most part.

Given the light material, I thought this was mostly down to the lead pair working with it well. Segal is reasonably good but his strength is in his chemistry with Fonda. She is good and has a nice comic touch. Support is generally solid if unspectacular with turns from Mcahon, Garcia and others but generally the film is carried by the leads. Direction feels a little dated now as the film has a very 1970's look and, without a sharp edge, it doesn't feel as relevant as it should do.

Overall this is a comic little film that is amusing and works thanks to easy performances by the lead pair. I would have preferred it to have had a much sharper edge to have blended satire with the comedy but it was still an entertaining little film albeit one that won't stick in my mind or have me coming back for repeat viewings.