Box Office: Identity theft and a sacrificing father

Identity Thief

 

Director: Seth Gordon

Cast: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy and Genesis Rodrigues

Running time: 1hr. 47 min

Genre: Comedy

Unlimited of funds has afforded a retail crazy Diana (McCarthy) with an opportunity to live it up on the outskirts of Miami, where she buys whatever strikes her fancy. But the problem is she’s doing all of this using an identity of “Sandy Bigelow Patterson” and it belongs to an accounts rep (Bateman) who resides halfway across the US. With only a week to find the con artist, the real Sandy Bigelow Patterson heads south to confront the woman with all the access to his life.

Snitch

Director: Ric Roman Waugh

Cast: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Barry Pepper and Jon Bernthal

Running time:1hr. 35 min

Genre: Action Drama

In this fast paced action film Johnson plays a father of a teenage son who is wrongfully implicated of a drug distribution crime and could land up in prison for 10 years. Determined to rescue his son, he makes a deal with the US Attorney to work as an undercover informant and disrupt a drug cartel on a mission to disrupt.

Ashley Mokwena

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