In the year 2000, Dick gets a plum promotion as a mega-corporate communications director. His boss is preparing to bail out of the company just before stock prices plummet. Dick's wife Jane has quit her job as a travel agent, so when the corporate stocks hit rock bottom, Dick and Jane are left penniless and desperate. They decide to resort to petty thievery and this eventually gets them plotting high-stakes revenge against the greedy executives who ruined their lives.
Alec Baldwin does a good job of playing the sleazeball corporate mogul. Jim Carrey does good work with the role of the put-upon Dick Harper, a corporate wannabe who gets a VP slot as the corporation implodes. Téa Leoni does good work as Jane Harper, breathing life into a lackluster role. A 2005 slapstick film that works nicely. Great ending line: Harper sees ex-Globodyne colleague in his car, and the latter says, got a job with this great company, Enron."
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