![]() Sandy’s plan is to drag Diane back to Denver and clear his record. As if she weren’t dangerous enough, it turns out that Diane’s being pursued by a pair of contract killers (Tip “T.I.” Harris and Genesis Rodriguez), who barge into her white-trash lair with guns blazing (the art directors clearly had a field day cramming a tiny home with as much tacky shopping-spree booty as they could manage). On first encounter, fake “Sandy,” aka Diane (McCarthy), freaks out when her mark confronts her, stealing his car and trying to ram him off the highway. Certainly that’s the idea of sending him on a road trip to “pretty much the worst place in America” to apprehend his doppelganger and drag her back to face charges in Denver.Īnyone who’s ever been the target of such fraud can tell you that trying to track down an identity thief in person is the last thing to do, but screenwriter Craig Mazin (who shares story credit with Jerry Eeten) has conceived a razor-blades-on-the-outside, mushy-in-the-middle laffer where the culprit isn’t half as bad as she initially seems. In all other respects, he’s a chump, and what his life needs most is something to shake him up and remind him he’s a man. Apart from his androgynous-sounding name - the source of a running series of emasculating jokes - Sandy seems as straight-laced and uninteresting as they come, though the casting department supplies him with crazy-hot wife Amanda Peet to cheerlead from the sidelines. Pulled over a few blocks later by cops with a warrant for his arrest, Sandy learns that in addition to racking up extravagant purchases on his cards, the female impersonating him also jumped bail and tried to evade narcotics charges in Florida.įrom where the audience sits, the irony is that hardly anyone would want this guy’s identity to begin with. ![]() The perfect sucker, Sandy Patterson (Bateman, reteaming with “ Horrible Bosses” director Seth Gordon) is an underappreciated bean-counter for a Denver mega-corporation who naively offers a chipper-sounding telemarketer (McCarthy) his vital details, then seems astonished when his credit card is declined at the pump. ![]()
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