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DESPERATE PLEASURE
2005
Overview
MOVIE REVIEW FUN WITH DICK AND JANE DIRECTED BY: DEAN PARISOT WRITTEN BY: JUDD APATOW AND NICHOLAS STOLLER\\ STARRING: JIM CARREY, TEA LEONI, RICHARD JENKINS, ALEC BALDWIN AT: BOSTON COMMON, FENWAY, SUBURBS RUNNING TIME: 90 MINUTES RATED: PG-13 (BRIEF LANGUAGE, SEXUAL HUMOR, DRUG REFERENCES) ***1/2 Dick and Jane are dismayed to discover that Dick's former co- workers have become just as desperate in their joblessness cockfighting rings and pot harvesting! Plus, Dick is facing indictment. So he aims his rebellion at the riches of his old boss, played by Alec Baldwin with a Colonel Sanders accent. I only wished the movie slowed down to appreciate the good actors who turn up in microscopic parts, including Stacey Travis, Laurie Metcalf, and John Michael Higgins. (Ralph Nader has a cameo, too, and there's a fine lampoon of Lou Dobbs.) The underappreciated Richard Jenkins does find time to pocket a few scenes. He plays a senior corporate crook who's now the spineless drunk helping Dick and Jane get revenge on Baldwin.
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Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC
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