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Feb 7, 2013 · Identity Thief has it all: guns, laughs, romance, chase scenes, scandal. But unlike other comedies in the genre, it manages to break out of the same routine plot. And thanks to McCarthy and...
While Horrible Bosses had lots of strong laughs and little to no flubbed jokes, Identity Thief had a major issue with jokes falling flat and overly annoying characters. The most annoying of these being Diana (especially in the beginning), which is unfortunate considering she’s a main character.
Feb 8, 2013 · The movie certainly has its raunchy moments (a motel room encounter between Diana and a good old boy she’s picked up — played by Modern Family ’s Eric Stonestreet — gets surprisingly sexually...
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Feb 8, 2013 · Starring: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, John Cho. Genre: Comedy | Crime. MPAA: R. Synopsis: Mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy’s identity.
And most troublingly, her character endures a fair bit of physical violence at the hands of several male characters, and these scenes are all played for laughs. Watching this onscreen, it is impossible to imagine such acts being perpetrated against Anna Faris or Cameron Diaz; audiences would be turned off by the “hitting a girl” factor.
The site's critical consensus reads, "Identity Thief ' s few laughs are attributable to Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman, who labor mightily to create a framework for the movie's undisciplined plotline".
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Even-tempered, kind, hardworking Denver resident Sandy Bigelow Patterson (Jason Bateman) finds himself in the unlikely position of having to confront Diana (Melissa McCarthy), a troubled, devious, middle-aged woman living large in Florida thanks to credit cards she took out in Sandy's name.
