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Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) More at IMDb Pro »

• Barry Sonnenfeld was set to direct the film, but bowed out citing personal reasons.
  
  
• Cameron Diaz was set to play Jane, but bowed out shortly before production due to scheduling conflicts.
  
  
• Paramount Pictures paid Sony over US$100,000 to interrupt filming of this movie for a week so that Jim Carrey could do promotional appearances for Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004).
  
  

• During the INS raid, one of the workers has an ID that says he's Opie Taylor. 'Ron Howard' played Opie Taylor on "The Andy Griffith Show" (1960). Ron's brother, Clint Howard, has a cameo in that scene as one of the INS agents.
  
  
• During the Starbucks scene in this movie, Téa Leoni seriously injured her shoulder when her character slid over the counter.
  
  
• The end credits feature "Special Thanks" to corporations or persons who were responsible/involved in some of the greatest financial collapses in American business history, like Enron, Arthur Andersen, Worldcom or that company's former CEO Bernie Ebbers.
  
  
• When Jim Carrey is trying to print out another form, he hides in the roof rafters. He falls after attempting to get down. This really happened and he hit the floor very hard. Carrey and the director went with it and kept rolling.
  
  
• The convenience store Dick attempts to rob and the smoke shop he does rob are almost across the street from each other in North Hollywood.
  
  
• The scene with Alec Baldwin talking to the media during a duck shoot is a reference to a President Bush gaff where he talked about the war and then invited the press to watch his golf swing.
  
  
• The form at the Grand Cayman Bank is referred to as a CRM-114. This is the same identification given to items in many Stanley Kubrick movies.
  
  
• WILHELM SCREAM: In a deleted scene where Dick and Jane rob a toy store (available on the DVD), the stock scream can be heard two times - as an elderly security guard leaps towards Dick, and again as the guard is thrown out a window.
  
  

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