S1 E42: "Fun with Dick & Jane" (#18)

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Box Office GROSS: The Top 50 Hit Films of 2005

Brian Schmid

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Revisiting the top 50 highest-grossing films of 2005 with the hindsight of twenty years, looking into the mostly-forgotten films that made the most money, why they were hits in their moment, and why they did or (more likely) did not endure in the popular culture.

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S1 E42: "Fun with Dick & Jane" (#18) - with Andrew McNally!

Box Office GROSS: The Top 50 Hit Films of 2005

1 hour 59 minutes 45 seconds

1 month ago

S1 E42: "Fun with Dick & Jane" (#18) - with Andrew McNally!

Our holiday marathon continues as our pal Andrew McNally (Allston Pudding) stops by to delve into FUN WITH DICK & JANE, one of the least-existent films in our list, a belated remake of a completely forgotten late-70s fluffy social satire buoyed to the top 20, a little bit by culturally relevant corporate scandals and a LOT by the enduring star power of Jim Carrey. This one floated through a lot of hands before settling with a right-before-fame Judd Apatow script, Tea Leoni taking over in the Jane Fonda role, and Alec Baldwin basically playing Jack Donaghy a year before 30 ROCK.

We delve into the film's strange anachronisms and unintentionally prescient present of this weird little anomaly, which feels like it was assembled by committee and yet inherited a very fitting cultural moment, a moment that Ralph Nader, Newgrounds, Enron, Jeff Garlin, shock collars, Darude's "Sandstorm", Rancid's "Time Bomb" , ICE, and our weird obsession with the Nostalgia Critic all intersect in a very fun episode.

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