Streaming in HD Identity Thief (2013)
- MOVIE page: Identity Thief (2013)
- Rate: 5.6/10 total 30,924 votes
- Genre: Comedy | Crime
- Runtime: 111 min | 121 min (unrated version)
- Filming Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
- Budget: $35,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross: $134,455,175 (USA) (31 May 2013)
- Director: Seth Gordon
- Stars: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Amanda Peet | See full cast and crew
- Original Music By: Christopher Lennertz
- Soundtrack: Swagger Jagger
- Sound Mix: Dolby Digital | Datasat | SDDS
- Plot Keyword: Hit In The Head With A Guitar | Profanity | Stolen Identity | Masturbation | Critically Bashed
- Craig Mazin (screenplay)
- Jerry Eeten (story) and
- Craig Mazin (story)
Goofs: Errors in geography: When Sandy stops for gas in Denver, and finds his credit cards declined, the gas station pumps have three choices of octane: 87, 89, and 92. Since Denver is at an altitude of 5280 feet (Mile High), the octane choices of all local gas stations are 85, 87, and 91 octane.
Plot: 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. Full summary » »
Story: Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman) gets a nice call confirming his name and other identifying information. The next thing he knows, a spa in Florida is reminding him of his appointment, and his credit cards are maxed out. With his identity stolen, Sandy leaves his wife, kids and job to literally bring the thief to justice in Colorado. But keeping tabs on the other Sandy (Melissa McCarthy) and run-ins with bounty hunters, is harder than he was expecting, and ultimately the cross-country trip is going to find both Sandys learning life tips from one another. Written bynapierslogs
Synopsis: Sandy Patterson gets a call from a woman saying someone attempted to steal his identity. She tells him about an identity protection service and asks him for his name, date of birth, and social security number. Little does he know that his identity is actually about to be stolen.
We meet Diana, printing out credit cards with Sandy's money and going out to a bar, buying drinks for everybody.
At work, Sandy gets called in by his boss, Harold Cornish, and he asks him to make cuts on bonuses, despite the fact that he is getting a bonus himself. As Sandy goes to do so, he gets a call saying he has an appointment at a salon on Friday in Florida. He's confused, but he gets called over by his co-worker Daniel Casey. In the parking lot, he and a few other co-workers meet to discuss starting their own firm since their boss is not the greatest person. Daniel asks Sandy if he'll join them, to which he agrees.
A little while later, Sandy tries to get gas, but his card is declined for insufficie....... Streaming Full Movie..
Produced By:
- Pamela Abdy known as producer
- Jason Bateman known as producer
- Dan Kolsrud known as executive producer
- Peter Morgan known as executive producer
- Mary Rohlich known as co-producer
- Scott Stuber known as producer
- Jason Bateman known as Sandy Patterson
- Melissa McCarthy known as Diana
- Jon Favreau known as Harold Cornish
- Amanda Peet known as Trish Patterson
- T.I. known as Julian
- Genesis Rodriguez known as Marisol
- Morris Chestnut known as Detective Reilly
- John Cho known as Daniel Casey
- Robert Patrick known as Skiptracer
- Eric Stonestreet known as Big Chuck
- Jonathan Banks known as Paul
- Ryan Gaul known as Bartender
- Steve Mallory known as Party Guy
- Tyler Nilson known as Party Guy
- Steve Little known as Party Guy's Buddy
- Andrew Friedman known as Tequila Guy
- Antwan Mills known as Winter Park Cop
- Ian Quinn known as Winter Park Cop
- Diva Tyler known as Booking Officer
- Mary-Charles Jones known as Franny Patterson
- Sope Aluko known as Secretary at Prominence Denver
- Maggie Elizabeth Jones known as Jessie Patterson
- Brett Baker known as Alec
- Nevaina Graves Rhodes known as Cosmetics Girl
- Diolita Arnold known as Cosmetics Girl
- Jamie Moore known as Electronics Store Employee
- Brenda Cannon known as Jewelry Store Salesperson
- Badar known as Cell Phone Salesperson (as Badar Shahid)
- Carlos Navarro known as Luis the Gas Station Attendant
- Nelson Bonilla known as Cop Giving Traffic Ticket
- Angelyn Pass known as New Catalyst Receptionist
- Lori Beth Edgeman known as Arlene in the Lady's Choice Salon
- Ben Falcone known as Tony / Motel Desk Clerk
- Kate Graham known as Counter Girl
- Deacon Dawson known as Witness on the Highway
- Geordie White known as Traffic Cop
- Steve Witting known as Carl / Bus Station Attendant
- Tim Andrews known as Used Car Salesman
- Gary Weeks known as Security Guard - Prominence Offices
- Matthew Burke known as Ken Talbott
- Craig A. Meyer known as St. Louis Terrace Clerk
- Lee Spencer known as St. Louis Terrace Manager
- Topher Payne known as Hairdresser
- Carmela Zumbado known as Salon Salesperson
- Zeeky Minnis known as Salon Salesperson
- John Eddins known as St. Louis Cop
- Chick Bernhardt known as St Louis Cop (as Dale W. Bernhard)
- Nicole Dukes known as Prison Guard
- Johnny Michaels known as Garage Mechanic
- Satara Silver known as Cosmetics Sales Clerk
- Kerri J. Baldwin known as Soccer Mom (uncredited)
- Lisa M. Barfield known as Resturant Patron (uncredited)
- Sarah Caruso known as Pedestrian / extra (uncredited)
- Harley Castro known as Denver Detective (uncredited)
- Lee Christian known as Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Kevin Covais known as Kevin (uncredited)
- Joe Crosson known as Business Man (uncredited)
- Jason Davis known as Kyle (uncredited)
- Todd Denson known as Bartender (uncredited)
- Clark Duke known as Everett (uncredited)
- Walter Hendrix III known as Precision Driver (uncredited)
- Morgan Hinkleman known as Young Diana (uncredited)
- Daniel Jarvie known as Shocked Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Andrew R. Kaplan known as Blue Collar Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Ellie Kemper known as Truck-Stop Server (uncredited)
- Liana Loggins known as Model at Bar (uncredited)
- Colton Medlin known as Neil (uncredited)
- Ken Melde known as Company Founder (uncredited)
- Andrea Moore known as Bitchy Girl (uncredited)
- Richard A Moore known as Pit Boss (uncredited)
- Cullen Moss known as Boyfriend 'The Ville' (uncredited)
- Kacie Jo Marta Nickles known as Bar Patron (uncredited)
- Onrico Nightingale known as Bartender #2 (uncredited)
- Julie O'Hora known as Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
- Wayne Packer known as Hotel Doorman (uncredited)
- Aaron F. Randell known as DJ (uncredited)
- Keith Ratchek known as Denver Detective (uncredited)
- Jamie Renell known as Prominence Suit (uncredited)
- Joel Rogers known as Motel Patron (uncredited)
- Clark Sarullo known as Woman at Bar (uncredited)
- Mitchell Schwartz known as Financial Business Man (uncredited)
- Timothy Scott known as Precision Driver (uncredited)
- Harley Shellhammer known as St. Louis Cop (uncredited)
- Edward Solis known as Used Car Salesman (uncredited)
- Don Teems known as Financial Business Man (uncredited)
- Jeff Trink known as Businessman (uncredited)
- Shane Worth known as Precision Driver (uncredited)
Production Companies:
- Aggregate Films
- DumbDumb
- Stuber Productions
MPAA: Rated R for sexual content and language
Identity Thief (2013) Review by Steve Pulaski from United States
I have sympathy for Jason Bateman's Sandy Bigelow-Patterson for reasonsother than he was victim to identity fraud. Being a male and having thename "Sandy" sets up a variety of jokes from socially childish peoplewho have never seen a male with the unisex name of "Sandy." Had it notbeen for my sweet mother, I would've been "Michel Pulaski," rather than"Steven" because of my father's obsession with Canada and their hockeyplayers and Quebec Nordiques-player Michel Goulet.
Other than that, that's about all the sympathy I have for thecharacters in Seth Gordon's Identity Thief. Overlong, underwritten, andtritely crafted, this is a perfect example of a comedy in the genre Icall "maximum antics, minimum laughter." To qualify for the placement,you must subject a somewhat interesting premise to more gratingphysical schtick than the intelligently crafted kind, which centersaround characters, wit, heart, substance, and wordplay.
As established, Bateman plays Sandy Bigelow-Patterson, a mild-manneredeveryman, functioning aimlessly in the corporate world that leaves himstuck in the center of the ladder. He struggles not only withresponsibility and a constant neglect in a pay raise, but with his wife(Amanda Peet) and two children, whose demands will soon become greater.The last thing Sandy needs is Diana (Melissa McCarthy), a portly,frantic, remorseless woman who targets Sandy as the latest victim inher ongoing credit card fraud scheme by obtaining his information viaprank call, making him believe his credit card account is in jeopardy.It is when him and a number of his coworkers ditch their dead-end jobsand begin working at a company created by one of the ex-employees (JohnCho) does Sandy feel his life is on the up-and-up.
Sandy is soon arrested for failing to appear at a court hearing forDiana, and this is when he discovers he is a victim of an identitytheft. Because the law enforcement of Denver has a cockamamie list ofrules they adhere to, not arresting or even researching Diana's recordssince she lives in Winter Park, Florida, Sandy decides to take mattersinto his own hands by going down to Florida to nab Diana and get her toconfess to law enforcement and to his boss to remain secure in his lifeagain. He assumes that because of Diana's pudgy nature, she'll be aneasy catch, until he finds that she's a violent, dangerous menace thatis almost frighteningly haunted and mentally off balance. Not onlythat, but both are being pursued by a witless debt collector and twoother assassins that want both dead for the crimes they've committed orallegedly committed.
What ensues is a predictable, uneven road comedy between the two, withtwo actors swimming in potential, but wasting it in a comedy of tirederrors. Jason Bateman can play straight characters in obscure worlds ina beautiful way (see Extract for reference), and Melissa McCarthyshowed that being gross can be funny in Judd Apatow's Bridesmaids. Bothof their schticks begin to show signs of wear as Identity Thiefhaplessly approaches the hour mark and many laugh-inducing situationshave been proposed but none of them fully exercising them.
Gordon's previous film was Four Christmases, a film that wasn't asmawkish and oversentimentalized as it could've been. While it stillaccentuated a rather negative relation to the holiday of Christmas andwas part of the genre I just spoke of, it still kept its premiseconcise and did not overcompensate its material to a ghastly overlonglength. Identity Thief does the opposite. Its unnecessary sequencesinvolving overweight people having intercourse and public humiliationare got from the drearily immature cloth I'm growing ever-so fond oflaying in when I Streaming comedies.
Yet the film really drops the ball when it attempts to make Diana acharacter we're supposed to feel bad for after all her menace, violentnature, unjustifiable cruelty, and not to mention, her willingness tocommit crimes of sheer carelessness. She is so loathsome that it isn'tthat her dramatic instances where her character receives humanizationfall flat, but it's that she's proved herself to be such a smug,arrogant, astronomically mean-spirited character that it's like tryingto accept a friend back after he's taken advantage of you numeroustimes. You feel cheated, used, and now, foolish to consider acceptingthem back into your life.
Identity Thief unfortunately subjects its leads into joyless, gimmickyphysical schtick, frequent car chases, and sorely unfunny scenes thatevoke the least common denominator of juvenile humor. It may not be asunabashedly quirky as some other comedic efforts I've seen this year,but regarding the cast, the material, and the ability of the directorto create a comfortable, unobtrusive atmosphere, this endeavorshould've much, much funnier.
Starring: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Amanda Peet, and John Cho.Directed by: Seth Gordon.
Identity Thief (2013) Review by jscott554 from United States
Oh My God this movie was bad So horrible it hurt to sit through thefirst 20 minutes to get to the point. I felt I could review it duewithout ever bothering to digest the whole piece.
Despite the high profile comedic talent on hand, (Jason Bateman andMelissa McCarthy), the movie is so predictable that you can guessalmost every nuance in it. If you wish to have your intelligenceinsulted for an hour and a half, this is for you.
The idiotic pranks the script calls for in the first half hour are sopredictable, you laugh at the characters as they attempt to convinceyou they're going through the actual experience of identity theft. Thelame attempt to profile a law enforcement agent's disdain for having topursue an identity thief is akin to what the audience feels in theireffort to connect with the characters. McCarty's character is sopredictable we've seen it 100 times in Hollywood. Good person feelsunloved, steals someone else's material goods to feel appreciated,throws party, is told no one cares and voila they want to do right.
Hello, thanks for your complete lack of originality.
When you have comedic talent, you don't have to give them an 9thgrader's high school play script to read. Give them some real material.McCarthy's character is so predictable you already hate her beforeyou're invested into why she actually bother to steal Bateman'scharacter's identity. By the time the movie reveals that McCarthy is aself-loathing, conceited, self deprecating individual who wants out ofher predictable Drug/gang related troubles, you have no empathy for hercharacter what-so-ever. In fact, you've already begun to detest herrole as a leach.
Bateman is the only character worth investing in and perhaps that'sbecause we still identify with him as one of the principles in Hancock,nearly the same character.
If I'm spending $8 to see a film it sure as heck isn't this one.
Give us a real script and less predictable jokes, less predictableoutcomes and less predictable plot lines. Yes, the actors were funny,but everything else about this film suc&ed.
Save your $ go see something else.
Identity Thief (2013) Review by diac228 (diac1987@netscape.net) from Orlando, Florida
It is deliciously ironic that a movie called Identity Thief has a verytough time building an identity for itself to display to the audience.This movie is a total jumble and lacks enough structure to even attemptto become a decent movie. What saves this movie from being a totaldisaster are the lead actors which had been on a roll up to this point.For those expecting a deliciously dark follow-up to Horrible Bossesfrom that same director instead will walk away quite disenchanted anddisappointed.
In a nutshell, stressed father and husband Sandy Patterson has hisidentity stolen resulting in him building up debt that's beingaccumulated by another person. Desperately in order to save his job andget his life back, he travels down to Florida to find the thief andconvince her to return back to Colorado to get things straightened out.This plot is rather ridiculous, which is why it required a screwball ordark comedic taint to remove the absurdity of it all. Unfortunately,despite the trailers and television spots this barely is a dark comedy,and barely works as a comedy to be exact.
Identity Thief is sometimes funny, but never funny enough. It issometimes dark and twisted, but never truly dark and twisted enough.It's even sometimes emotional and sentimental (very inconsistently Imight add), but even that ship sails too soon far too often. Lastly itis sometimes interesting and suspenseful, but, well, you get the point.The intriguing and potentially hilarious premise of a disgruntledvictim meeting his money-sucking predator was started by a Floridianteacher, but gets ruined by a bloated and underdeveloped script byCraig Mazin----whom doesn't really have a good repertoire. Themismatched directing of Seth Gordon didn't help either.
It is ultimately the cast that keeps it afloat, even when the scriptbogs them down. Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy work well togetherand did a great job despite the circumstances, particularly McCarthy.Then check out the rest of this underused staff: Eric Stonestreet,Robert Patrick, Amanda Peet, Genesis Rodriguez, Morris Chestnut, andJohn Cho. Plenty of good actors and each with the ability to breathelife into the project, but unfortunately just didn't have enough screentime to make an impact.
Bottom Line: Resembling a weak, watered-down useless version of Planes,Trains, and Automobiles instead of the likes of Horrible Bosses and thebest of Danny DeVito, Identity Thief struggles to find the right focusand right footing and winds up becoming a movie that isn't funnyenough, isn't dramatic enough, isn't wild enough, isn't likable enough,and generally isn't good enough to warrant a second viewing---or afirst one. It's one thing to disappoint, but it's a totally differentmatter when you disappoint underneath so much potential and so muchtalent at the helm.
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