Description
One-time talented golfer, Wallace Avery (Colin Firth) is struggling with a life from which he longs to escape. Faking his own death, he acquires a forged passport and a new identity that of a golfer named Arthur Newman . Arthur heads out for Indiana to start a new life and a promise of a new job as a resident golf-pro at a prestigious club. Along the way, he meets the beautiful but troubled Charlotte (Emily Blunt), who is also traveling under a false identity that of her schizophrenic twin sister, Michaela or Mike and has fled her own home in North Carolina.
Arthur and Mike s relationship flourishes and they embark on an adventurous road-trip where they take a deviation, breaking into empty mansions and assuming other people s identities until, eventually, the role-playing games begin to lose their lustre, revealing two hearts hurt by life s challenges. Arthur & Mike are then forced to take another look at themselves and the real lives they ve left behind.
