"If you don't have a life, get someone else's."

2012

1h 33m

5.6(222 votes)

Drama

Overview

A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.

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Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Colin Firth

Arthur Newman

Emily Blunt

Mike Fitzgerald

Lucas Hedges

Kevin Avery

Anne Heche

Mina Crawley

M. Emmet Walsh

Zazek

Kristin Lehman

Mary Alice Wells

Phillip Troy Linger

Fuller Wells

Sterling Beaumon

Grant Wells

Autumn Dial

Charyl

Steve Coulter

Owen Hadley

Creative team

Directed by: Dante Ariola
Written by: Becky Johnston
Produced by: Mac Cappuccino
Brian Oliver

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