The Familiar Stranger (2001)

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Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Mystery
Release: 2001-03-12
Director: Alan Metzger
Writers: Alan Hines
Language: English
Stars: Margaret Colin , Jay O. Sanders , Jay O. Sanders , Aaron Ashmore , Michael Cera , Erik Knudsen , Maria Ricossa , Victoria Snow , Gary Hudson , Will Estes , Anna Ferguson (I)
Runtime: 91 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Familiar Stranger , Un mort qui se porte bien (Canada) , Podwójne życie mojego męża (Poland) , The Familiar Stranger (United States of America) , My Husband's Double Life (Australia) , Férjem kettős élete (Hungary) , My Husband's Double Life (United Kingdom) , My Husband's Double Life (United States of America) , A Vida Dupla do Meu Marido (Brazil) , La doble vida de mi marido (Spain) , Faux-semblant (Canada) , Une nouvelle vie (France, French Republic) , Η διπλή ζωή του άντρα μου (Greece) , Познати странац (Serbia)
Plot: Patrick Hennessy Welsh had a fine job at an Ohio university, but abused it to cash fake expenses filed under the names of unsuspecting professors. When he is found out and condemned, his wife Elisabeth and sons Chris and Ted find a note that he has committed suicide and will love and watch them from heaven. Years later, when they have painstakingly adjusted to life without a dad, she learns from the insurance company he is not dead- it appears he has been allowed to start a new life as Timothy Michael Kingsbury to pay off debts. Elisabeth first approaches him alone, but doesn't even get financial compensation for the repayment demanded by his falsely paid-out life insurance. Ultimately she tells the boys the truth, as she intends to sue him...
IMDB:tt0282482