adminsocial security number. Little does he know that his identity is actually about to be stolen.
Diana (Melissa McCarthy) prints out credit cards with Sandy’s money and goes out to a bar, buying drinks for everybody.
Back home, Sandy is celebrating his birthday with his wife Trish (Amanda Peet) and their two daughters. After the party, he goes over his finances and sees they only saved about 14 dollars.
Trish asks about the bonuses at work, and he says they’re not getting anything. This makes it harder since they have a third kid on the way.
At work, Sandy gets called in by his boss, Harold Cornish (Jon Favreau), and he asks him to make cuts on bonuses, despite the fact that he is getting a bonus himself. As Sandy goes to do so, he gets a call saying he has an appointment at a salon on Friday in Florida.
He’s confused, but he gets called over by his co-worker Daniel Casey (John Cho). In the parking lot, he and a few other co-workers meet to discuss starting their own firm since their boss is not the greatest person. Daniel asks Sandy if he’ll join them, to which he agrees.
A little while later, Sandy tries to get fuel, but his card is declined for insufficient funds and the petrol station clerk cuts it.
He calls the credit card company and he’s told he’s spent a lot of money in Florida. As this happens, he gets arrested. At the same time in Florida, Diana continues splurging with Sandy’s money.
At the station, Detective Reilly (Morris Chestnut) tells Sandy that he missed a court date in Florida for assault. They pull up a mug shot of Diana and determine she’s stolen Sandy’s identity. It gets worse at work when Daniel (now his boss) says cops are asking about him possessing drugs.
Reilly and other cops show up and say a card with Sandy’s name was used to buy drugs from a man named Paolo. When told they can’t do anything unless the identity thief was standing there in Denver with them, Sandy (knowing where he can find her) offers to go on his own and bring her there and get her to talk to Daniel to clear his name and that he won’t press charges.
Trish finds out about the situation and knows Sandy’s taking a risk, but he assures her he’ll get the job done. He ends up in Florida and finds Diana at the salon where she made an appointment and follows her. She notices he’s following her and slows down so he rear-ends her.
When he confronts her, she throat-punches him and steals his car and the keys to her rental car. However, through the registration papers in the glove compartment, he finds her address.
Sandy takes a cab to Diana’s house, which is full of merchandise and other stolen credit cards. He attempts to handcuff her, and they get into a fight, in which he eventually knocks her out by whacking her with a guitar.
Before he can cuff her, two people named Marisol (Genesis Rodriguez) and Julian (Cliff Harris) are pounding at the door, telling Diana she gave Paolo some bad credit cards. They shoot the door open, but Sandy and Diana escape.
Diana manages to escape on the ride out and tries to run away on the parkway. Sandy chases after her and explains her whole situation and promises nobody will shoot at her, and he won’t press charges. She reluctantly agrees to go in.
On the road, Diana reminds Sandy that the people at the airport would have an issue with both of their ID’s reading “Sandy Bigelow Patterson”, so flying back is out of the question. They eventually stop in Georgia to eat and rest.
Diana makes it difficult for Sandy when he tells her to order a small meal to save money, but she gains sympathy from the waitress (Ellie Kemper) when she makes up a story that Sandy’s her husband and is abusive towards her.
Diana goes to the nearby bar and meets Big Chuck (Eric Stonestreet). After a few drinks, she brings him back to the hotel room for a night. Sandy locks himself in the bathroom as Diana and Chuck sleep. After he knocks out, Diana attempts to make a run for it by swiping his and Sandy’s money and phone after trapping Sandy in the bathroom with Chuck’s belt.
When she gets to the car, however, Sandy’s phone rings. She answers to hear his daughter’s voice and she breaks down in tears. She goes back to the room and pretends like nothing happened. What follows is a series of events until Diana is caught.
One year later, Sandy is celebrating another birthday, this time with his third kid joining them.
The family goes to visit Diana in prison, where she’s doing well taking some exams. As Trish takes the girls outside, Sandy presents Diana with a birth certificate of hers that he was able to find and it’s revealed that Diana’s true name is Dawn Budgie, which she thinks is not an appealing name. They laugh and Diana goes back in as Sandy leaves. — Wikipedia.com.
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