Movie Review: Identity Thief (Watch Trailer)

Director: Seth Gordon

Cast: Amanda Peet, T. I, Jason Bateman, John Cho, Jon Favreau, Melissa McCarthy, Morris Chestnut, Robert Patrick...

Writing Credits: 

Screenplay - Craig Mazin 

Story - Jerry Eeten, Craig Mazin  

Release Date: February 2013

A Colorado mild-mannered businessman, Sandy Patterson, (Jason Bateman), is tricked into giving his credit card details over the phone to Diana (Melissa McCarthy from Bridesmaids), a Florida confidence trickster, whose extravagance threatens his job, his family and his future. Only by going to Miami, discovering that Diana is an obese, alcoholic, sluttish sociopath, and forcefully taking her back to Denver, can he clear his name.

The film goes downhill when the makers become sentimental and attempt to make Diana sympathetic and have Sandy regard her intervention in his life as some kind of Job-like test that helps him grow as a man. Identity Thief is fictitious and intended to be funny, but in its own way it is extremely frightening and could have happened to anyone.


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Other credits:


Pamela Abdy .... producer
Jason Bateman .... producer
Dan Kolsrud .... executive producer
Peter Morgan .... executive producer
Mary Rohlich .... co-producer
Scott Stuber .... producer

Original Music by
Christopher Lennertz

Cinematography by
Javier Aguirresarobe

Film Editing by
Peter Teschner

Casting by
Lisa Beach
Sarah Katzman

Production Design by
Shepherd Frankel

Art Direction by
Andrew Max Cahn

Set Decoration by
Maria Nay

Costume Design by
Carol Ramsey

Makeup Department
Bryson Conley .... hair stylist
Linda D. Flowers .... hair department head
Michelle Garbin .... makeup artist
Kimberly Greene .... makeup department head
Tijen Osman .... assistant hair department head
Quintessence Patterson .... makeup artist
Victoria Wood .... wig maker
Erin Wooldridge .... key makeup artist

Production Management
Marcei A. Brown .... unit production manager
Frank Cuomo .... post-production supervisor
Louis G. Friedman .... unit production manager: additional photography

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Mikey Eberle .... second assistant director
Gary Hymes .... second unit director
Matti Kluttz .... second assistant director: second unit
Richard Oswald .... second assistant director: second unit
Darin Rivetti .... first assistant director
David Sardi .... first assistant director: second unit
Megan Schmidt .... second second assistant director