Box set containing the original 1977 version of ' Fun With Dick & Jane' & the 2005 remake. In ' Fun With Dick & Jane' (1977), manager Dick Harper (George Segal) & his attractive young wife Jane (Jane Fonda) are used to a comfortable lifestyle. However, just as they're putting in a new pool at the house that has sunk them deep into debt, Dick is fired from his high-paying job as an executive. Housewife Jane isn't too worried at first, figuring she'll go to work & they'll just tighten their belts for a while but it quickly becomes apparent that Dick's unemployment isn't going to go very far, & she isn't really good at anything besides spending. So when Jane inadvertently gets away with stealing $2, 000, the entrepreneurial spirit takes over & the two come up with a new solution: they'll steal the money they need to live on. There's only one thing they didn't count on: being a robber is actually hard work. In ' Fun With Dick & Jane' (2005), Dick Harper's (Jim Carrey) years of hard work finally pay off when he is promoted to vice president at Globodyne, a worldwide leader in the consolodation of media properties. But after exactly one day in his new job, Globodyne is destroyed by an Enron-like calamity
- & he is left holding the bag. Dick's sudden reversal of fortune has left him little time to set money aside for a rainy day. Now it's raining buckets as Dick & his loving wife Jane (Tea Leoni), watch in horror as their deluxe home, their luxury cars & their status-conscious friends quickly vanish into thin air. After playing by the rules & working single-mindedly to build a comfortable life for his family, Dick is utterly unprepared to give up the American dream. Taking a lesson from his current employer, however, Dick hits on a brilliant idea: if stealing was good enough for his boss, then it's good enough for him.