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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.
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.
Identity Thief is a 2013 American road comedy film directed by Seth Gordon, written by Craig Mazin from a story by Mazin and Jerry Eeten, and starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy. The film tells the fictional story of Sandy Patterson, a man whose identity is stolen by a female con artist.
Feb 8, 2013 · The idea is pretty basic, and the movie launches into it with its very first scene: Sandy Patterson (Bateman), a well-meaning, overly trusting family man living in Denver, falls for a comically...
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In Denver, Sandy Patterson is tricked into buying phony identity theft protection from Diana, a Florida con artist, over the phone and he reveals all of his personal information. At work after Sandy clashes with his obnoxious boss, Harold Cornish, he receives a phone call that reminds him he has an appointment at a salon in Florida. Confused, he pu...
Casting
The film was first conceived as a project with two male leads, but that changed when Bateman saw McCarthy in Bridesmaids and pushed for her to star alongside him. Jerry Eeten wrote an early draft, later finished by Craig Mazin with a final rewrite by Seth Gordon. In January 2012, Gordon was announced as the director of the film with Scott Stuber producing through his Stuber Pictures banner with Bateman and Peter Morgan for DumbDumb. In April 2012, John Cho, Clark Duke and Amanda Peet joined t...
Filming
Some filming took place in Atlanta at the 191 Peachtree Tower, around May 2012. Scenes were also filmed on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta, at The Colonnade restaurant on Cheshire Bridge Road in Morningside, and at Perimeter Mall.Scenes from the film were also shot at Salon 2000 in Ansley Mall.
In March 2012, a release date of May 10, 2013 was announced.In June 2012, the release date changed to February 8, 2013.
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 19% based on 178 reviews with an average rating of 4.2/10. 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". On Metacritic, the film has a score of 35 out of 100 based on 41 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScoregave the film an average grade...
Identity Thief is a 2013 comedy film, starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy and directed by Seth Gordon. McCarthy plays the titular thief who royally screws over Bateman's character.
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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.
