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Movies that feel like Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

If you loved Fun with Dick and Jane, the closest films we have are The Legend of Al, John and Jack (2002), Horrible Bosses (2011) and RED 2 (2013). All three share Fun with Dick and Jane's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it – but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.

🍅 30% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Dean Parisotwittyplayfulgrittymelancholy

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The Legend of Al, John and Jack
2002 · dir. Massimo Venier
6.5comedy · crime

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Hapless Depression-era gangsters Al, John and Jack find out their boss wants to get rid of them and come up with a plan to sell him to the FBI, but Al's short-term memory loss could make it difficult.

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Horrible Bosses
2011 · dir. Seth Gordon
🍅 69%6.9comedy · crime

Both land grit and melancholy at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers... permanently.

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RED 2
2013 · dir. Dean Parisot
🍅 44%6.6action · adventure · comedy

Dean Parisot directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Missing the melancholy of Fun with Dick and Jane

Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device.

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The Internship
2013 · dir. Shawn Levy
🍅 34%6.3comedy

Common ground: loss of job

The difference: None of the grit Fun with Dick and Jane is built on

Two recently laid-off men in their 40s try to make it as interns at a successful Internet company where their managers are in their 20s.

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No manches, Frida
2016 · dir. Nacho G. Velilla
🍅 13%5.5comedy

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

After being released from prison, Zequi, a bank robber, sets out to recover money buried by his accomplice; but is horrified to learn that a high school gymnasium is now over the site where the loot is hidden.

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The Hustle
2019 · dir. Chris Addison
🍅 13%5.5comedy · crime

Both lean on play more than on crime

Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

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Austin Powers in Goldmember
2002 · dir. Jay Roach
🍅 52%6.3comedy · crime

Gritty comedy in both cases

The world's most shagadelic spy continues his fight against Dr. Evil. This time, the diabolical doctor and his clone, Mini-Me, team up with a new foe—'70s kingpin Goldmember. While pursuing the team of villains to stop them from world domination, Austin gets help from his dad and an old girlfriend.

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Big Momma's House
2000 · dir. Raja Gosnell
🍅 31%5.3crime · comedy

Crime built on wit, twice over

When a street-smart FBI agent is sent to Georgia to protect a beautiful single mother and her son from an escaped convict, he is forced to impersonate a crass Southern granny known as Big Momma in order to remain incognito.

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Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
1994 · dir. Peter Segal
🍅 66%6.5comedy · crime

Playful comedy, and it commits to that

Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he has to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Adding to his problems, Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.

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Good Bye, Lenin!
2003 · dir. Wolfgang Becker
🍅 91%7.7comedy · drama

Both are built on the same subject: husband wife relationship

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Fun with Dick and Jane does

Alex Kerner's mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell. When she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happened (as she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.

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White Chicks
2004 · dir. Keenen Ivory Wayans
🍅 15%5.9comedy · crime

Both lean on grit more than on crime

Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich white women.

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Identity Thief
2013 · dir. Seth Gordon
🍅 20%5.7comedy · crime

Comedy of the same temperament

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

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