Arthur Newman
Directed by:
Dante AriolaScreenplay:
Becky JohnstonComposer:
Nick UrataCast:
Colin Firth, Emily Blunt, Anne Heche, Kristin Lehman, David Andrews, Peter Jurasik, Steve Coulter, M. Emmet Walsh, Autumn Dial, Sterling Beaumon, Lucas Hedges (more)VOD (1)
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One-time talented golfer, Wallace Avery (Colin Firth) is struggling with a life from which he longs to escape. Faking his own death, he acquires a forged passport and a new identity that of a golfer named Arthur Newman. Arthur heads out for Indiana to start a new life and a promise of a new job as a resident golf-pro at a prestigious club. Along the way, he meets the beautiful but troubled Charlotte (Emily Blunt), who is also traveling under a false identity that of her schizophrenic twin sister, Michaela or Mike and has fled her own home in North Carolina. Arthur and Mike's relationship flourishes and they embark on an adventurous road-trip where they take a deviation, breaking into empty mansions and assuming other people's identities until, eventually, the role-playing games begin to lose their lustre, revealing two hearts hurt by life's challenges. Arthur & Mike are then forced to take another look at themselves and the real lives they ve left behind. (Arrow Films)
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Exactly as Emma53 stated in her review, Colin Firth and Emily Blunt don’t fit together at all, but maybe that’s the whole point of this film. The clash of their very different lives and miseries created a bond that might help both of them. Unfortunately, this happens in the form of rather sad and gloomy testimonies that don’t do much to spark joy. A human but incredibly sad movie.
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