I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

"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+

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.

I thought this movie was excellent, entertaining and very informing of people like Connie Volkos. She is a despicable thief, a nut and definitely personality disordered and sociopathic. She is not concerned with ruining other people's lives and is oblivious to the devastation she causes. She takes no responsibility for her actions and thinks she can just get away with things. It all started when Michelle Brown (the victim) walks into the loan office were Connie worked, with a skirt on that Connie liked. When her credit card is declined at the store she steals Michelle's credit card and information and dishonestly has the luxuries life, she wants. In the end all I can say to her is that, "Hey when you've layed around your whole life, you don't just get to say one day, "Oh I think I want what everybody else has worked so hard for their whole life". It does not work that way".

I loved this movie because, if it had been the reverse(one man stealing another man's identity), I don't think, you would see the emotional anxiety, a victim of identity theft, goes through!!! Sure women are more emotional but, I think, that was an advantage because, it enables illustration of, the pain, regardless of sex, what an identity theft victim goes through...the pain, the anguish, having to constantly prove, you are who, you say you. I am sorry if women find this offensive. I feel that women, are far more honest with, both, themselves and, others when it comes to expressing pain, regardless of what type.Christopher