FILM · 2005
Fun with Dick and Jane
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- #001
While trying to print another form, Jim Carrey hid in the roof beams. After trying to climb down, he fell. This actually happened and he hit the ground very hard. Carrey and the director went with it and kept going.
- #002
Paramount Pictures paid Sony over $100,000 to pause filming on this movie for a week so that Jim Carrey could appear in the promotional scene for A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).
- #003
Téa Leoni seriously injured her shoulder in the coffee shop scene when her character slid over the counter.
- #004
Globodyne employees lose their retirement savings because they invested in the company's stock. The same thing happened at Enron four years earlier.
- #005
The end credits include a "special thanks" to former Enron Corporation CEO Kenneth Lay. Almost seven months after this film was released, he was found dead on July 5, 2006.
- #006
Cameron Diaz was going to play Jane but dropped out shortly before production due to scheduling conflicts, and Téa Leoni was brought in to replace her.
- #007
The form Jane has to change when she alters the documents at the bank is called CRM-114. The same alphanumeric sequence is also used in Dr. Strangelove, Back to the Future and Men in Black III.
- #008
After Jack McCallister's "donation," his net worth dropped to $2,238.04.
- #009
In the scenes where the immigrants flee from the INS, Jim Carrey shouts "La Migra," Spanish slang for "The Immigration." Actor Jullian Dulce Vida taught him to say it between takes.
- #010
In the scene where immigrant workers are detained by the Immigration Bureau, the INS agent played by Clint Howard mentions that a person is carrying an ID named "Opie Taylor." Opie Taylor was played by Clint Howard's brother Ron Howard on The Andy Griffith Show (1960).
- #011
The supermarket Dick tries to rob and the cigarette shop he does rob are almost directly across from each other in North Hollywood.
- #012
The wholesale store where Dick briefly works is called Kost Mart, the same name as the department store where John and Jane Smith hide out in Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
- #013
Alec Baldwin's house is the same as Jon Lovitz's house in The Benchwarmers.
- #014
When Cameron Diaz was set to star, the Coen Brothers helped rewrite the script. Had Diaz not dropped out, she would have reunited with Jim Carrey, with whom she had worked on The Mask (1994).
- #015
The Gore-Lieberman campaign office appears in two scenes. Al Gore and Joe Lieberman ran for President/Vice President in 2000.
- #016
Barry Sonnenfeld was going to direct the film but dropped out for personal reasons.
- #017
Jim Carrey and Richard Jenkins had previously appeared together in Me, Myself & Irene (2000).
- #018
Fifteen years later, Alec Baldwin and Jim Carrey appeared as presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden in Chris Rock/Megan Thee Stallion (2020).
- #019
Before Jim Carrey was cast, several other actors were considered for the role of Dick. The first choice was Ben Stiller, but the role was never offered to Stiller. The studio then decided to offer the role to Rob Schneider, but Schneider turned it down because he was not very interested in the film. Eventually the role was offered to Jim Carrey, and he said yes.
- #020
George Segal played Dick Harper in the original 1977 version. He was set to appear alongside Tea Leoni and Richard Jenkins in Flirting with Disaster.
- #021
Peter Tolan was the original writer of Fun with Dick and Jane. After several delays, he left the project and Judd Apatow and Nicholas Stoller were hired to write the screenplay.
- #022
The studio initially wanted Ben Stiller and Cameron Diaz to come together as Dick Harper and Jane Harper respectively. Ben Stiller was never offered the role, and Cameron Diaz was attached but ultimately dropped out due to scheduling conflicts with In Her Shoes (2005). The studio also wanted Barry Sonnenfeld to direct from a script by Peter Tolan. In the end, the studio hired different actors for the lead roles, a different director and different writers for the screenplay.
- #023
Alec Baldwin and Richard Jenkins had previously appeared together in The Confession and Outside Providence.
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