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Identity Thief (2013)

★ 5.9 · 3,505 ratings on TMDB

She's having the time of his life

Identity Thief poster★ 5.9

When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.

DirectorSeth Gordon
CastAmanda Peet, Eric Stonestreet, Genesis Rodriguez, Jason Bateman, John Cho, Jon Favreau
GenresComedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Identity Thief keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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