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Arthur Newman

2012

Dante Ariola

Colin Firth, Emily Blunt, Anne Heche, Sterling Beaumon ...

5.4

209

Romance. Comedy. Drama Wallace Avery (Colin Firth) hates his job. He’s blown his one shot at living his dream, and his relationships are in shambles. Not wanting to face his life, he stages his death and purchases a new identity as Arthur Newman. His hope-filled new existence is soon interrupted by beautiful, reckless and exciting Mike (Emily Blunt). Together they hit the road—not only stealing the identities of those they encounter, but engaging in an ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"[A] sweet, semi-romantic road trip"
		Owen Gleiberman 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!"
		Rex Reed The New York Observer	"Two lost souls on the highway of life — that’s what a well-acted but benign little trifle called 'Arthur Newman' is about"

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