2013 · comedy · crime · heist
Identity Thief
Directed by Seth Gordon1h 51m2013
When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
Our read: Identity Thief (2013) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · heist entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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