- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2005
- Country:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- None
- Premiss:
- Jobless, and with no savings, pension, or home equity, Dick and his wife Jane sink slowly into poverty. He looks for work; he even tries day labor. A foreclosure notice sends Dick and Jane over the edge into a life of blue-collar crime.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Destiny | Emotional repression | Guilt | Loneliness | Personal change | Self-expression | Social class | White culture | White supremacy
- Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- Fun with Dick & Jane
- Review Format:
- DVD
Remake Hell
The usual White whining that occurs when Whites cause an economic recession; inevitable given the White reliance on deficit financing and consumer- and credit-driven economies.
Instead of innovating and working hard to solve their problems, Whites revert-to-type by stealing from others - as White imperialists did centuries ago to become wealthy in the first place.
Unlike its superior predecessor, this does not admit to the above points; pretending, instead, that the White
If Whites think, as here, that remaking the hits of yesteryear for profit can be made to work by spurious updates to the present-day, they are seriously wrong. This kind of behavior simply illustrates the dearth of present-day writing talent, talent that can take current events and make a story about the modern world - as the first film did - instead of desperately shoehorning an old idea to work in present circumstances.
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