Arthur Newman (film)
Arthur Newman stylized as Arthur amp Mike in the United Kingdom is a 2012 American dramatic comedy film directed by Dante Ariola and starring Colin Firth and Emily Blunt. Written by Becky Johnston, the film is about a former professional golfer who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life of failure. On his way to a new job in the Midwest, he is joined by a troubled young woman who is also trying to escape from her past. The film was released theatrically in the United States on April 26, 2013.
Faking his own death by drowning on a deserted beach, he acquires a forged passport and a new identitythat of a golf pro named Arthur Newman. Leaving Florida behind, Arthur heads out for Terre Haute, Indiana to start a new life and a new job as a resident golf pro at a club. Along the way, he meets a beautiful but troubled young thief. He takes her to the hospital after finding her slumped beside his motel swimming pool from a nearlethal dose of morphineinfused cough syrup. The young woman, Charlotte Fitzgerald Emily Blunt, is also traveling under a false identitythat of her paranoidschizophrenic twin sister, Michaela or Mikeand has fled her home in Durham, North Carolina.Arthur and Mike become traveling companions and eventual lovers on their way to Indiana. Mike thinks up a game in which they spot interestinglooking couples, break into their homes, dress up in their clothes and pretend to be them. Meantime, Wallaces teenage son Kevin initiates an unlikely friendship with his fathers former girlfriend Mina. Together they struggle to understand the man who skipped out of their lives. ........
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