Identity Thief: Directed by Seth Gordon. With Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet. Mild mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Florida to confront the deceptively harmless looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy’s identity. 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.