Arthur Newman

Amazon.com Wallace Avery (Colin Firth) is a middle-aged, divorced man with a son and an ex-wife who won't speak to him, an unfulfilling job, and a girlfriend who doesn't excite him. Like any man experiencing a midlife crisis, Wallace decides to buy a convertible, assume a new identity (Arthur Newman), and become a golf pro. As he heads out on a cross-country journey, Arthur stumbles upon a young woman (Emily Blunt) who's had a scrape with the law and is showing signs of a serious drug overdose. Since he can't seem to resist the urge to help her, he ends up taking her along on his adventure. It turns out that "Mike," the young woman, has a pretty big secret of her own and that she is not fooled by Wallace's new identity. The unlikely pair soon discover that besides their shared desire to escape their pasts, they have much in common. From this point in the film, their journey plays out a lot like the 1991 movie Thelma & Louise. Arthur and Mike are driving down the road and one day fancifully decide to take on the identity of a couple they come across. Soon it becomes a habit that leads to some serious brushes with the law over things like breaking and entering, money theft, and even a stranger's death. The pace of the film is leisurely: it often feels like nothing happens and a lot happens, all at the same time, and sometimes the experience can be perplexing, just like life. By the end of their journey, Arthur and Mike have explored their deepest fears, feelings, and fantasies and are forever joined--no matter where their individual paths may lead. --Tami Horiuchi Product Description Wallace Avery is tired of his life. Divorced, disconnected from his son, dissatisfied with his love life, he decides the time has come for a radical solution. He literally walks away from his life, buys himself a new identity as Arthur Newman, and sets out toward his own private Oz - Terre Haute, Indiana - where he believes he has a chance to work as a golf pro. Wallace's idea of a second chance is to become a second person. His road trip is derailed by the entrance of Michaela Fitzgerald, whom Arthur discovers passed out poolside at a motel. It takes her all of a couple hours to bust Arthur's identity scam. It takes Arthur a lot longer to bust hers. Colin Firth and Emily Blunt co-star in this gently comic love story set in a perfect storm of identity crisis. ARTHUR NEWMAN, from a screenplay written by Becky Johnston, looks at how two people, desperate to remake themselves, fall in love and find a way to accept responsibility for who they really are.
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