Making the transition from documentary filmmaker to directing big studio comedies is not something we've seen pulled off successfully too often except for the case of Seth Gordon, who followed the critically-acclaimed video game doc The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters with the hit comedies Four Christmases and Horrible Bosses . Now he's back with his third comedy Identity Thief , which pairs Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy for R-rated high concept hijinx as the victim and perpetrator of a case of identity theft. Bateman plays up 'n' coming executive Sandy Patterson, who accidentally gives his information out to a woman on the phone (McCarthy) who uses that information to make credit cards so she can rack up tens of thousands of debt at the former's expense. When he...
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