Jim Carey plays Dick a good natured career and family man. He's slowly progressed up the company for years and at last he's offered the position of Vice President for Marketing.

In his first speech to the media, he is flooded with difficult questions about the company and it's dealings. Questions that he has no idea how to answer. The stock price takes a massive dive (comedically shown as he speaks) and the company is forced into liquidation.

His wife has just quite her job, they've just started spending his pay rise when suddenly they are left penniless. What starts off as extra freetime soon becomes a struggle to survive. Given his employment history Dick is unable to find a new job. The jobs they do try don't stick and soon they are selling everything.

Soon enough there is nothing left to sell and they snap. In what is the best scene of the film Dick (having had his newly laid lawn repossessed) steals squares of lawn from all over the neighbourhood. Stopping just short of stealing grass from a graveyard.

This new angle leads them to a life of petty crime and soon their fortunes are reversed, but with the threat of an investigation into his part in the company's liquidation he needs to go after the real culprit.

This is a very funny movie with a great cast and plot. It seems that they don't give their alternative jobs enough of a chance, but then it is realistic to expect that the change in lifestyle from big business to working in a mall to be too much to take.

Jim Carey is again on form in this movie. See it if you get the chance.

see also:
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World, Bruce Almighty, Dinner for Shmucks, Land of the Lost

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