Dick
(1999)
Caught between an audience who might like a Kirsten Dunst-Michelle Williams flick but had never heard of Watergate and an audience to whom a Watergate comedy sounded appealing but weren't interested in seeing a couple of bubbleheaded kids clearly on a career road to nowhere, this opened on 1,522 screens in August 1999, made $2.2 million its opening weekend (some $24 million behind The Sixth Sense), and closed in 5 weeks after making back less than half of its $13 million budget. Which is, perhaps, not a crime on a scale with wholescale burglaries, bribes, and obstruction of justice, but still . . .
Dunst and Williams, then 17 and 18, respectively, play spacy 15 perfectly, and Dan Hedaya has the (title) role he was born to play. The premise is so delicious that I'm not even going to mention it, in case one person reason this doesn't already know: just rent the damned thing and thank me later.
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