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Arthur Newman (2012)

Arthur Newman (2012)

R 101 minutes EN Drama
If you don't have a life, get someone else's.
A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.
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