The next morning, Sandy finds Diana gone and a note that apologizes for the trouble she caused. Sandy and Trish have a private conversation that night, agreeing not to turn in Diana even if it means that Sandy will lose his job. Diana and Sandy eventually get home, where Diana has dinner with Sandy's family and reconciles with them. Sandy comes to her aid, but Diana revives and defensively strikes Sandy in the throat. The skiptracer shoots Marisol and Julian, finds Diana and Sandy on the highway mid-escape, and hits Diana with his car. Diana uncuffs herself in the back of the police car, breaks the back windshield, and escapes with Sandy. The accounts processor enters with cops, who arrest Sandy and Diana. Louis, the two share dinner, and Diana admits she does not know her real name. Meanwhile, Marisol shoots the skiptracer, and the criminals continue their pursuit of Sandy and Diana. For gas money, the pair con an accounts processor and steal Cornish's identity to create new credit cards. As the next bus to Denver leaves in three days, Sandy uses money hidden in his socks to buy a cheap car. Sandy wakes at a bus station, and Diana says she carried him until she flagged down a truck. Sandy discards his pants when he finds a snake in them, and Diana accidentally knocks him unconscious when another bites his neck. When it overheats, they continue on foot through a forest. They take the skiptracer's van and tie him up in back. A chase ensues she knocks him unconscious, and Sandy rams his van off the road. Because their IDs are identical, flight is impossible, and they travel by car.Īfter traveling through several states, the skiptracer catches up to the pair and captures Diana. Meanwhile, a skiptracer is dispatched to track down Diana for a substantial bounty. After Sandy and Diana escape, Sandy tells her about his plan to restore his reputation, and she agrees to help. The pair scuffle before Sandy can handcuff her, criminals Marisol and Julian burst in, angry that Diana gave Paolo bad credit cards. Finding her address in her abandoned car, he investigates her house, which is full of merchandise and stolen credit cards. Sandy finds Diana at the salon in Winter Park, Florida, but when he confronts her, she steals his rental car. When the cops say they can do nothing unless the identity thief is in Denver, Sandy offers to retrieve her and convince her to clear his name despite his wife's concerns. Reilly says Sandy's name was used to buy drugs from someone named Paolo. The situation worsens when cops ask Daniel, now his boss, about Sandy's possession of drugs. At the police station, Detective Reilly determines Diana has stolen Sandy's identity. As the credit card company tells him that he has spent much money in Florida, he is arrested for missing a court date there. When paying for gas, Sandy's card is declined, and the clerk cuts it up. Confused, he puts it out of his mind when co-worker Daniel Casey suggests they and several others start their own firm Sandy agrees to join them. At work, after Sandy clashes with his obnoxious boss, Harold Cornish, he receives a phone call that reminds him he has an appointment at a salon in Florida. Just a shadow of those better films.In Denver, Sandy Patterson buys identity theft protection from Diana, a con artist, over the phone and reveals all of his personal information. And for a wacky comedy, McCarthy cries, what, about seven times during this? I guess they wanted that Planes, Trains and Automobiles feel to it. There's a few laughs, but not as many as you would think. Take Bateman's low key, put-upon character and McCarthy's brash, vulger character, put them in situations.there's the movie. And that movie was by no means original, itself. The road trip, one lead character bringing the other to "justice", the bounty hunter, the killers, the scamming of expense money, of course they learn to like each other by the end.it's like a checklist of the DeNiro/Grodin classic. The road trip, one lead character bringing the other to "justice", the bounty hunter, the killers, the scamming of expense money, of course they learn to like each other by the end.it's like a checklist of the This movie wants SO BADLY to be this generations' Midnight Run, it hurts. This movie wants SO BADLY to be this generations' Midnight Run, it hurts.
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