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Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

"Based on true events", the film revolves around Michelle Brown and her husband seeking the classic 1950's white suburban segment of the American dream. Events turn sour when 9 minutes in, Michelle and one of her basic bff's flow with excitement over her filling out loan papers. The rigged debt that will come from this will come back to haunt her. To twist the knife even further; a monster in the form of Connie Volkos, a white trash cartoon stereotype, uses Michelle's credit card information to feed her shopping addictions. It becomes a race against time for Michelle to stop Connie, save her financial life and hopefully, learn to use her money better.All the performances range from serviceable (Michelle's partner) to jocular (Connie Volkos); but the lead character, Michelle Brown, at the helm of Kimberly Williams-Paisley is given the most human performance in this picture.Michelle Brown's ignorance early in the film may be doltish, but she is clearly a character worth rooting for as she is proactive in her tedious journey of taking her life back. As this is a Lifetime movie; almost the entire story structure is procedural, and at times heavy handed to the point of irritation (there is a scene in which one of Michelle's friends spells out to the audience about the growing danger of identity theft in America). This all isn't to say "Identity Theft: The Michelle Brown Story" is complete rubbish; for what it lacks in suspense, it makes up in clarity. I could imagine a film director like Steven Soderbergh ("Ocean's Eleven") making a sophisticated and white-knuckle thriller revolving around a plot similar to this film.Grade- C+

This film isn't necessarily bad, but it's not that good. The acting is just passable, the story is very bland, and the whole flow this film is overly predictable. The premise is good, however. The actors and actresses in this film did alright. They seemed pretty believable for the most part, but a few of them just didn't seem to give it their all, and came off as somewhat boring. The story, while it's premise is good, is very bland. The story itself is pretty good for the most part. However, it seems very predictable and kind of aimless. Other than all that, I was impressed with Lifetime with this film, considering some other films from Lifetime, Hallmark, Freeform, etc., are mostly garbage in my opinion. But this film was good enough for me to think this film was better than most from Lifetime, Hallmark, Freeform, etc. I don't think I can really recommend this to anyone, as there are better films than this, but I'm sure that most people who like films from Lifetime would enjoy this film, probably more than others they have seen on that Channel.

I like this movie very much. Anyone committing or having committed ID Theft should be made to watch this movie no less than 20hrs a day and not less than 2yrs every day. Maybe then people will understand what kind of damage they have caused and stop and think about it. I can personally related because two people in my extended family did this and they're getting off the easy way. No sympathy should be the punishment. Anyway I thought the movie was directed and performed with the excellence to make this seem so realistic and not twist the truth of what happened. I think everyone should watch this movie. It really gives you an idea of what can happened when you least expect it.

Did any other wonder, after Connie drove to Michelle's home in the NM van she had stolen, why Michelle didn't (a) get the license plate number and (b) call the investigator who had been working her case???? I'm hoping that this was just a production errorOther than these points, my husband and I loved the movie, knowing that identity theft can happen to anyone under any circumstance. I'm so glad that, since Michelle's ordeal, legislation has been implemented for tougher sentences. It's so unfortunate that identity theft occurs every six seconds as stated in the movie. It just might be worth closing established accounts and open new ones every so often to help prevent it.