The victims identity has yet to be released.NIAGARA FALLS ACTION: the vehicle continues to inch closer to the brink of the falls.Now sitting between 15-20 yards away. 101 John James Audubon Pkwy Buffalo, New York 14228. Identity Thief also showcases McCarthy’s virtuosity as a physical comedian.Īnimated by McCarthy’s theatrically-manic, violent, physical comedy, Diana is relentlessly energetic and unscrupulous beneath her cartoonishly awful attire. Identity Thief marks the second big score for McCarthy and Universal Pictures, which cast the 42-year-old actress in her breakout role in the 2011 hit Bridesmaids. Phone: (716) 839-3939 Fax: (716) 970-4550. She enjoys her feminine masquerades and uses them to counter social and economic disempowerment. Instead, she is transformed by McCarthy into something else: a female impersonator who glories in excesses of style and appetite. Her visual excesses are set in contrast to the modest appeal of hard-working, underpaid family man Sandy.īut Diana never quite subsides into being just a tacky, pathetic fashion victim addicted to shopping.
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The production’s costume designer, Carol Ramsey, recalls that Diana’s wardrobe of candy bright floral and gingham was modelled on the real-life horrors of plus size fashion.Ĭombined with similarly garish makeup, Diana is styled as the embodiment of white trash, impulse-driven consumerism. She creates an outrageous female antihero whose larger-than-life masquerade of femininity is a survival strategy.ĭiana’s visual excess is in sharp contrast to the man whose identity she steals. The scriptwriters appeared to struggle with McCarthy’s character, falling back on stereotypes in depicting Diana as an utterly isolated loser.īut we see McCarthy taking control of the joke through a high camp performance. Too long at just under two hours length, the makers appear to have dropped Melissa McCarthy in the middle of a film, built a load of questionable on going gags around her, and. Producer and co-star Jason Bateman who plays Sandy Patterson, the man whose identity Diana steals, asked for the second role to be rewritten with McCarthy in mind. Identity Thief is a hard film to recommend to film fans looking for a comedy to cheer them up. Identity Thief was originally written for two male co-stars. With its origins in the gay male subculture of drag performance, camp is strongly identified with ironic gender play – a key element of McCarthy’s comedy. Sexually voracious and atrociously attired in Kangol Ventair caps, orthopedic sandals and pearls, Megan was the first of many McCarthy creations that speaks to her sympathy for - and delight in - the outrageously-dressed, tastelessly-coiffed and badly-behaved.Įntirely the product of McCarthy’s improvisational comedy, Megan incarnates what Susan Sontag in Notes on Camp (1964) referred to as a “tender feeling” which “relishes, rather than judges” what others might deride as bad taste. Her break out big-screen role was Megan, the idiosyncratic sister of the groom in Bridesmaids (2011). The supporting cast is strong, including Eric Stonestreet, Amanda Peet, T.I., and Jon. Identity Thief gets its personality and true moments of comedy from the interplay of the odd-couple stars. Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, Tip "T.I.When Identity Thief was released, McCarthy was best known for crafting adorable, quirkily likeable characters for the small screen in Gilmore Girls (2000-07) and Mike & Molly (2010-16). Identity Thief echoes some of the best bits of Midnight Run (and Bateman himself seems to be paying homage to that films costar, Charles Grodin). And as he attempts to bribe, coax and wrangle her the 2,000 miles to Denver, one easy target will discover just how tough it is to get your name back. With only one week to hunt down the con artist before his world implodes, the real Sandy Bigelow Patterson heads south to confront the woman with an all-access pass to his life. COMEDY A Denver man tracks down the Florida woman who stole his identity, financed a luxurious lifestyle, and. and it belongs to an accounts rep ( Jason Bateman) who lives halfway across the U.S. There's only one glitch: The ID she's using to finance these sprees reads “Sandy Bigelow Patterson”.
Unlimited funds have allowed Diana ( Melissa McCarthy) to live it up on the outskirts of Miami, where the queen of retail buys whatever strikes her fancy.
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