Product Details

• Actors: Jane Fonda, George Segal, Ed McMahon, Richard Gautier, Allan Miller
• Directors: Ted Kotcheff
• Writers: David Giler, Gerald Gaiser, Jerry Belson, Mordecai Richler
• Producers: Marion Segal, Max Palevsky, Peter Bart
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 1.0)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: July 1, 2003
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00009AVA7
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #61,941 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Jane Fonda was so respected as a serious actress that her comedy chops sometimes were overlooked. But it should be remembered that her first real hits (Barefoot in the Park, Cat Ballou) were comedies. This underrated 1977 outing also played for laughs, though it had social-satire underpinnings that still ring true. Fonda and George Segal play an upwardly mobile couple in the time before yuppies--think of them as protoyuppies. But their status-oriented existence suffers what could be a fatal blow when hubby is maneuvered out of his job. Broke and unemployed, they become armed robbers--and discover that crime can pay for them to live in the style to which they've become accustomed. Segal and Fonda have a breezy ease as confused suburbanites who bring the same neurotic thoroughness to crime that they do to their careers. But the script (whose authors include Jerry Belson and Mordechai Richler) never uses either the Robin Hood angle or any other angle that could sustain a sharp edge; as a result, the comedy winds up more cute than knowing. --Marshall Fine

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun, Fun, Fun, August 6, 2004

By	MongoSlade (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

I've also loved this movie since I was a kid. Fonda and Segal have terrific chemistry, and their comic timing is impeccable. Sharp, witty script too. I've also been hoping to find a copy with the deleted scene at the cosmetics counter. (I seem to remember Rose Marie from the Dick Van Dyke Show being in it, and it was hilarious.) Sorry not to see it on the DVD. Funny cameos from Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train) and Dick Gautier as a crooked evangelist. All in all VERY funny.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Columbia Home Vid Forgot the DELETED Scenes!!!, June 21, 2003

By A Customer

I loved this movie ever since i saw it when i was a kid.
Two additional scenes were added to the broadcast television premiere on ABC. One that stands out is a scene with Jane (Fonda) getting a job behind a cosmetics counter and having to confront a very difficult obese older female customer. This was a very funny scene that seems to now be lost and Is NOT going to be included in the new DVD release.
I didn't have a VCR at the time to timecapsule this extended version, It never was again! I hoped that it would make it's way onto DVD.
Columbia why do this!!!!! that scene as I rembember it was one of the best scenes in the film and made it even more enjoying. Unhappy fan :(

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Romp through poverty with George and Jane!, February 3, 2000

By	Bunny Man! "mallard6" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fun with Dick and Jane [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is certainly my favorite show for both George Segal and Jane Fonda. They are marvelous as folks trying to make ends meet (by hook OR crook) in the face of unemployment. Their hijinks are very funny, as they exhaust ALL the possibilities for humor in the search for employment and solvency.

Especially memorable are the fashion show, the celebratory dinner (with food stamp inspector), and the performance of Carmen. But good spots in this film are too frequent to cite!

The film is good humored, wry and witty, and altogether diverting!