Frustrated with his boring life, Wallace Avery (Colin Firth) fakes his own death and sets out to make a new life for himself as a golf pro named Arthur Newman. He then then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.
1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
26 July 1961, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
October 20, 1970 in England, UK
21 March 1964, Fresno County, California, USA
12 December 1996, New York City, New York, USA
25 May 1969, Aurora, Ohio, USA
29 June 1971, New York, USA
2 November 1952, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
20 December 1968, Burlington, North Carolina, USA
10 September 1960, Grayshott, Hampshire, England, UK
June 29, 2014
Completely disposable ...April 26, 2013
One of those many indies that exist to give actors a chance to go slumming.April 26, 2013
Well-acted but ultimately unmemorable ...April 26, 2013
An offbeat, sometimes self-congratulatory road movie romance.April 25, 2013
The film equivalent of a dysfunctional computer sloppily assembled from discarded parts of other machines.June 26, 2014
The stars play strangers on an odd road trip who are meant to be finding things out about each other: if you were put next to either of them on a plane, you would quickly regret your seating assignment.February 20, 2014
Constantly screws up even its own mid-sized ambitions.June 26, 2014
A bland and baffling oddity ...June 26, 2014
A film that fails to make the most of a good cast and a great premise.October 18, 2013
a far-fetched story, told in a rather unappealing way.April 26, 2013
They embark on one of those maundering, life-lessony odysseys that filmmakers love but audiences rarely do.April 25, 2013
The promise it begins with doesn't pay off. And while "Arthur Newman" is not a complete disaster, it does leave you wishing the romance and the ride had been a whole lot smoother.