Identity (movie)

Identity is a 2003 movie, directed by James Mangold and written by Michael Cooney. The film stars John Cusack, Ray Liotta and Amanda Peet.

The film tells two stories. Ten strangers, after a series of accidents, find themselves stranded at the same motel during a rainstorm, where they start suffering increasingly horrible deaths. Meanwhile, at an emergency midnight meeting, a doctor attempts to convince a judge that a serial killer about to go to his death is, in fact, insane and cannot be held accountable for his actions. The convergence of these two stories marks an astounding plot twist.

The film itself didn't perform very well upon its release, but was reasonably well received in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The film was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in 2003.

Trivia

• Several endings were filmed, in order to shroud the real conclusion in secrecy.
• The poem "As I was going up the stair / I met a man who wasn't there. / He wasn't there again today / I wish, I wish he'd go away", which one of the characters claims to have written when they were young, is actually a poem by Hughes Mearns.
• There was some location shooting in Lancaster and other places in Los Angeles County, but the majority of the movie was shot on an enormous sound stage at Sony Studios in Culver City.
• The book featured within the film, during a car scene was "Being and Nothingness" by Jean-Paul Sartre.
• A life-size dummy created to depict a murdered character with a baseball bat lodged in his throat was given to one of the studio executives who asked to keep it as a souvenir. It was stored in his office closet, until a cleaning woman opened the closet and was frightened out of her wits. The dummy was removed from the offices immediately after that incident.

Cast

• John Cusack as Ed
• Ray Liotta as Rhodes
• Amanda Peet as Paris
• John Hawkes as Larry
• Alfred Molina as Dr. Malick
• Clea DuVall as Ginny
• John C. McGinley as George York
• William Lee Scott as Lou
• Jake Busey Robert as Maine
• Pruitt Taylor Vince as Malcolm Rivers
• Rebecca De Mornay as Caroline Suzanne
• Carmen Argenziano as Defense Lawyer
• Marshall Bell as District Attorney
• Leila Kenzle as Alice York
• Matt Letscher as Assistant District Attorney
• Bret Loehr as Timmy York
• Holmes Osborne as Judge Taylor
• Frederick Coffin as Detective Varole
• Joe Hart as Bailiff Jenkins
• Michael Hirsch as Naked Businessman
• Terence Bernie as Hines Bailiff
• Stuart M. Besser as Frozen Body

Still Photos

External links

• Official site
• Identity at the Internet Movie Database