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Identity Thief

2013

Seth Gordon

Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, John Cho, Jon Favreau ...

4.3

5,602

Comedy A comedy centered on a man (Jason Bateman) and the woman (Melissa McCarthy) who steals his identity. Unlimited funds have allowed Diana to live it up on the outskirts of Miami, where the queen of retail buys whatever strikes her fancy. There's only one glitch: The ID she's using to finance these sprees reads “Sandy Bigelow Patterson”... and it belongs to an accounts rep who lives halfway across the U.S. With only one week to hunt down ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"It wants to be "Midnight Run" meets "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," but it carries little of the dramatic heft and real-world semi-plausibility of those much superior efforts (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Another rough comic movie road trip helps give car travel a bad name"
		Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"The comedy equivalent of mud-wrestling without the mud (...) Watch the trailer, if you must, but spare yourself the full experience: 'Identity Thief' steals time"
		Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times	"Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, steal so many laughs from such improbable places that the bumps in this revenge/road trip farce can be mostly forgiven, though not forgotten"
		Peter Debruge Variety	"With 'Identity Thief', Melissa McCarthy proves she's got what it takes to carry a feature, however meager the underlying material"

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