Wallace Avery is tired of his life. Divorced, disconnected from his son, dissatisfied with his love life, he decides the -me has come for a radical solution. He literally walks away from his life, buys himself a new identity as Arthur Newman and sets out toward his own private Oz – Terre Haute, Indiana – where he believes he has a chance to work as a golf pro. Wallace’s idea of a second chance is to become a second person. His road trip is derailed by the entrance of Michaela Fitzgerald, whom Arthur discovers passed out poolside at a motel. It takes her all of a couple hours to bust Arthur’s identity scam. It takes Arthur a lot longer to bust hers.
Colin Firth and Emily Blunt costar in this gently comic love story set in a perfect storm of identity crisis. Arthur Newman, from a screenplay written by Becky Johnston, looks at how two people, desperate to remake themselves, fall in love and find a way to accept responsibility for who they really are.
Arthur Newman is now available on DVD, and thanks to Transmission Home Entertainment we have 5 copies to give away to Australian readers. To go into the draw for this giveaway, email your name and address to
sarah@trespassmag.com by April 29th. Please remember to put ‘Arthur Newman‘ in the subject line of the email. Only one entry per person will be accepted.
