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Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• 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 Starbucks scene in this movie, Téa Leoni seriously injured her shoulder when her character slid over the counter.
  
  
• 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 George W. Bush gaff where he talked about the war and then invited the press to watch his golf swing.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• In the scenes where the immigrants are running from INS, Jim Carrey screams out "La Migra", which is Spanish slang for "The Immigration". Actor Jullian Dulce Vida taught Jim to say that in between takes.
  
  
• Globodyne's employees lose their retirement accounts, because they are invested in the company's stocks. This is also what happened to Enron four years before.
  
  

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