Synopsis
A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.
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Cast
- Colin FirthArthur Newman
- Emily BluntMike Fitzgerald
- Lucas HedgesKevin Avery
- Anne HecheMina Crawley
- M. Emmet WalshZazek
- Kristin LehmanMary Alice Wells
- Phillip Troy LingerFuller Wells
- Sterling BeaumonGrant Wells
- Autumn DialCharyl
- Steve CoulterOwen Hadley
Recommandations
- 75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
This is more “Something Mild” than “Something Wild.” But Firth and Blunt handle their characters’ many revelations with care and play with layers of hurt and disappointment with great sympathy and pathos. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
[A] sweet, semi-romantic road trip. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
The way Firth embodies the character, with a robot stare and a flat affect that expresses each thought as a kind of minimalist hologram of emotion, he's playing a cipher who pretends to be a different cipher. How indie-ironic! - 63
Slant Magazine
Throughout Dante Ariola's film, the expressions of the false-identity theme are multitudinous, and about as subtle as the Colin Firth character's choice for a new last name. - 60
Time Out
Uncourageously, the plot gets a case of cold feet, looping back to half-written family members left in the dust. But when it’s being wild, the drama has nearly enough character to pass for distinct. - 50
Observer
Two lost souls on the highway of life — that’s what a well-acted but benign little trifle called Arthur Newman is about. - 40
Variety
Firth and Blunt make a strange couple, and Ariola a musicvideo helmer making his feature debut, should have devoted more time to making the chemistry work than to sustaining the melancholy mood. - 40
Village Voice
Fun for a bit, things soon turn silly.
