Disconnect

Every family wants to be closer. Every couple has secrets. Everyone is fighting to get ahead. Every cause has an effect. In Disconnect, a dozen lives collide as they search for meaning, justice, and connection.

Three interconnected stories, three chances for redemption. A busy lawyer (Jason Bateman) spends all day glued to his cell phone, neglecting his family in order to maintain his wealth of professional contacts. A naive couple (Alexander Skarsgard and Paula Patton) try to connect with strangers over the internet, and they get their identity stolen for their troubles. An ambitious journalist (Andrea Riseborough) wants to write a story about a teenager performing on an adult-only website, but their interaction jeopardizes both her career and his life. As each story progresses, three worlds clash, with lives hanging in the balance. Disconnect explores the dark side of connectedness—and highlights the many ways in which we can lose ourselves in today’s increasingly wired world.

Written by Andrew Stern and directed by Academy-Award nominated Henry-Alex Rubin, Disconnect will see a limited theatrical release on April 12, 2013. This LD Entertainment drama also stars Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Michael Nyqvist, Max Thieriot, Colin Ford, Jonah Bobo, and Haley Ramm. Rated R for sexual content, some graphic nudity, language, violence, and drug use (some involving teens).

Identity Thief

 

In today’s world, identity theft is a nightmare that affects millions of people each year. Upon learning that they’re a victim of identify theft, most people contact the police, the credit bureaus, and other authorities to try to straighten things out. But in Identity Thief, a new comedy from director Seth Gordon, that’s not the approach taken by mild-mannered Denver businessman Sandy Bigelow Patterson (Jason Bateman). Sandy, a “regular guy,” has discovered that he is the victim of identity theft. With everything to lose, he hits the road knowing he has just one week to hunt down the con artist and straighten things out before his world implodes.

 

Meanwhile, Diana (Melissa McCarthy), is living it up in Florida. A frosted-hair shop-a-holic, Diana is having a blast buying anything and everything that her heart desires. The only problem, of course, is that the ID that she’s using to finance her spending spree indicates that she is “Sandy Bigelow Patterson”! When the real Sandy Bigelow Patterson catches up with her, he quickly discovers that she is far less harmless than she looks.

 

Based on a screenplay by Steve Conrad and Craig Mazin, Identity Thief is scheduled for release on February 8, 2013 by Universal Pictures. The comedy also stars Jon Favreau, Amanda Peet, Tip “T.I.” Harris, Genesis Rodriguez, Morris Chestnut, John Cho, Robert Patrick and Eric Stonestreet.