Fun With Dick And Jane (1977)

It was kind of a departure for Fonda, whose recent roles had been rather serious.

R1- She turned down the role of Erica in An Unmarried Woman around the time this movie was released yet agreed to appear in this B movie-which I like but it's still a B movie.

OP, were you embarrassed when Jane Fonda suddenly pulled down her panties and started peeing on-camera?

That's all I remember about this clinker.

I just paused at the part where George Segal is in line at the unemployment office and cuts in front of a woman who , I just realized is the same broad who was in Throw Mama From The Train about 10 years later.

I'm going to have an operation in a month. You know- THE operation.

A TRANS person in 1977 WAY before it was fashionable.

Starts at 18:26

OP you sound like me. The film opened in February of 1977, and I was 11 and went with my friend and his older brother to see this film. I mostly remember being surprised that Carson's sidekick Ed McMahon was in it. It's a mediocre film and rather toothless. Roger Ebert gave it ⭐⭐1/2

' Comedy of the lightest possible sort, the picture is coherent and smooth, so it’s not a complete misfire. However, it’s executed with such mindless superficiality that it’s more like Passing Time Painlessly with Dick and Jane.' ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I preferred “How to Beat the High Cost of Living”

I enjoyed it; it was fun and lighthearted.

It was Columbia's third highest grossing film in 1977. I'm sure Jane did it for commercial reasons and that she wanted to do a comedy.

Jane is doing yoga and there's this weird sound in the background. The camera pulls out and we see it's their dog panting. I also remember the scene where Segal tries to rob a place and it's filled with blacks. He's scared and embarrassed and backs out slowly only to have two of the customers ask when they started bussing white robbers into their neighborhood.

I, too, saw this in movie theaters as a kid. It was funny, and made a very serious point about the real problems middle class people were facing in those days. Everyone was so busy trying to keep up with the Joneses (never try to keep up with Joneses -pull them down to your level; it's cheaper) and living paycheck to paycheck as soaring inflation robbed them of any hope of getting out from under their mountain of debt. It's a real historical piece... uh... oh.

Never mind.

R11- Compared to now 1976 when this movie was filmed was the GOOD OLD DAYS. Our standard of living has dropped dramatically since then. We were still a manufacturing powerhouse in 1976/77.

Fun with Jane's Dick is the trans version

Saw this several times when I was in high school. Has a special place in my heart and love the theme song by "the Movies."

You had me at "Fun With Dick".

[Quote] Has a special place in my heart and love the theme song by "the Movies."

'How time flies we were once ahead of the game' sounds like something the Patridge Family rejected.

Fonda and Barbra Streisand two of the biggest female stars of the 70s worked with many of the same leading men. Besides Segal they both worked with Redford, James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Kris Kristofferson, Jeff Bridges, Robert DeNiro and Yves Montand