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FUN WITH DICK AND JANE
August 9, 2013  | By David Bianculli

Oxygen, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

This 1977 comedy, starring George Segal and Jane Fonda, was remade (though not very well) in 2005, starring Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni. But even the remake may have been a few years ahead of its time: The plot has a middle-class, well-off couple suddenly squeezed out of the American dream by rising costs and falling incomes. Dick and Jane react to unemployment and the threat of foreclosure by staging a form of protest – and becoming bank robbers. This film itself is a little heavy-handed, but given the economic headlines of recent years, now seems the right time to revisit it.

 
 
 
 
 
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