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But then Dick is shoved onto a live newscast at the very moment when the stock tanks, and Baldwin's baddie escapes with the last of the assets.The whole community is in ruins, and Dick and Jane descend down a stepladder of economic humiliation, from hocking their possessions to submitting a urine sample at a union-hostile KostMart store to a borderline-insensitive sequence where Dick competes for a day-labor gig against Mexican immigrants.When even their lawn sod is repossessed, the Harpers resort to armed robbery.Through the compressed learning curve, Carrey and the equally antic Leoni keep the action brisk and silly, culminating in an obligatory disguise montage.This short movie slows down in a final sequence where the couple tries to swindle Baldwin's fortune from an offshore bank account, and the ending is way too pat for a story that aspires to political commentary.
And it never really addresses the question of why we should care about a couple whose lives are stil...
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