Here we are at the
Here we are at the end of the year with a couple of weeks left to sift things through before everyone leaves for the Xmas holiday, and I'm only just starting to hear about screenings of two big-studio comedies -- Dean Parisot's
Fun With Dick and Jane (Columbia, 12.21) and Rob Reiner's
Rumor Has it (Warner Bros., 12.25). We all know that a typical Meathead movie (i.e., one directed by Rob Reiner) will be conservative and tonally smoothed-out as well as diametrically opposed to any kind of loosey-goosey 1980s Pedro Almodovar sensibility, so that kind of diminishes the
Rumor want-to-see right off the top of the deck. (Honestly? I'm more interested right now in those
Jennifer Aniston papparazzi boob shots that her attorney has been threatening magazine editors about.) I just got invited to a December 12th London screening of
Fun With Dick and Jane by Sony's Anna Whelan...but the Culver City Sony team is curiously silent. (Wait...have I been taken off the screening list because of my
Geisha comments?) The irony is that Dean Parisot (director of the great
Galaxy Quest and the under-valued
Home Fries) is a good guy with good instincts...but leave it to Sony's p.r. team to convey the opposite impression.
Dick and Jane, a remake of a not-very-good 1977 comedy that was co-written by Judd Apatow, Nicholas Stoller and Peter Tolan, was said to be a "troubled" during production...but that's just talk. It's about ideal married couple Dick (Jim Carrey) and Jane (Tea Leoni) freaking and turning to larceny when their income dries up.
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