Identity Thief
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Short description
Sandy Patterson is an ordinary account manager living in Colorado with his wife and two children, expecting a third. His life begins to unravel when he discovers that someone has stolen his identity: a woman in Florida has been running up enormous bills in his name, financing a lavish shopping habit with money he does not have. With his job and reputation on the line, and only about a week before the damage becomes irreversible, Sandy sets out from Colorado to Florida to find her and bring her back, hoping she will confess to the fraud and clear his name. The journey becomes a long drive to Denver during which he tries persuasion, bribery and threats, while the woman proves resourceful and difficult to control.
Seth Gordon directed the film, which followed his earlier features Four Christmases, Freakonomics and DiDi Hollywood, and Horrible Bosses, and preceded Baywatch, Back in Action and Under the Rainbow: The Curious Crimes of the Ruby Slippers. Craig Mazin wrote the screenplay, and Pamela Abdy, Scott Stuber and Jason Bateman produced. Bateman plays Sandy, with Melissa McCarthy as Diana, alongside Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, T.I. and Génesis Rodríguez.
Released in February 2013, the comedy cost about 35 million US dollars and took roughly 174 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds 5.7 out of 10 from around 148,000 votes, and on TMDB 5.9 out of 10 from some 3,574 votes, while a critics' rating stands at 4.3 out of 10 from 172 reviews.
What's left behind the scenes
- When the real Sandy is talking to the bank on the phone, a missing rearview mirror can be noticed. It reappears when he is pulled over and removed from the car.
- When Sandy stops at a gas station in Denver and discovers a problem with his credit card, it is visible that there is a choice of three fuel options (87, 89, and 92). Since Denver is located at an altitude of 1600 meters above sea level, all its gas stations should have fuel 85, 87 and 89.
- When Sandy refuels in St. Louis, the meter consistently reads $0.00 and 0 gallons.
- When Sandy stops in the underpass while in Florida, Georgia state road signs are visible. The same signs can be noticed during the car chase scene involving the bounty hunter.
- The appearance of the Georgia patrol car is inaccurate.
- When Sandy arrives in Miami, Florida, to catch Diana at the salon, the scene begins with an aerial shot of the coastline, then cuts to Sandy waiting in the car. It creates the impression that Winter Park is near Miami, when in reality there is about a 5-hour drive between them.
- After Sandy and Diana purchase the car for $200, the scene of their arrival in St. Louis, as they cross the bridge, was actually filmed in downtown Chattanooga, with the tallest buildings of St. Louis added using computer graphics.
- The female of the villainous couple pursuing the protagonists constantly makes funny mistakes in her speech. This is a reference to the film "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (1997), where one of the villains, of Arab nationality, also makes speech errors.
- Sandy's tie knot is different in the office scenes and at the very end of the film.
- When Sandy and Diana jump into the car and drive away from the captors' house, the background changes inconsistently while they are talking and driving.
- In all the cars the protagonists take, with the exception of the initially rented vehicle, a crushed Red Bull can can be noticed.
- In the beauty salon, the bounty hunter threatens the hairdresser, saying that the blue disinfectant is highly flammable. In reality, Barbacide is not flammable.
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