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Identity (2003) - Special Edition


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Four out of Five

Movie

Rating: R (strong violence and language)
Length: 90 minutes

Video

Widescreen 2.40:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Full Screen

Audio

ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 2.0

Captions

English, French

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Plot

A wide variety of strangers get stranded at an out of the way motel in Nevada due to a rain storm (an actress and her ex-cop driver; a cop & his prisoner; a set of parents and their son; a hooker; two newlyweds; and the motel owner). One-by-one they end up dying.

Pros

You can look forward to a lot of suspense intermixed with gore and plot twists. I loved the ending. The acting was superb throughout the cast.

Cons

It is shot entirely at night in a storm hence it's always dark; I would have hated to work on this film. Once the story started to sort itself out, the final scene was very predictable.

Extras

  • Audio Commentary by Director James Mangold
  • Deleted Scenes with Optional Commentary by Director James Mangold
  • Storyboard Comparisons
  • Starz: On the Set
  • Filmographies
  • Theatrical Trailer

Recommendation

This film grabs your attention and doesn't let it go until the very end; if you're a fan of Hitchcock you'll want to check this out. This is not a film for people that are inclined to having bad dreams.

Director

Actors

Carmen Argenziano - Defense Lawyer
[Andersonville, Swordfish]
Marshall Bell - District Attorney
[Innocent Blood, The Puppet Masters, Starship Troopers, Total Recall, Virus]
Jake Busey - Robert Maine
[Enemy of the State, Starship Troopers]
John Cusack - Ed
[Being John Malkovich, Con Air, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Ice Harvest, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
Rebecca De Mornay - Caroline Suzanne
Clea DuVall - Ginny
[The Ghost of Mars, The Grudge]
John Hawkes - Larry
[Miami Vice, The Perfect Storm]
Leila Kenzle - Alice York
Matt Letscher - Assistant District Attorney
[Gods and Generals, The Mask of Zorro]
Ray Liotta - Rhodes
[Blow, Cop Land, Goodfellas, Hannibal, Heartbreakers, In the Name of the King, Smokin' Aces]
John C. McGinley - George York
[Fat Man and Little Boy, Office Space, Platoon, The Rock, Wall Street]
Alfred Molina - Dr. Malick
[The Da Vinci Code, Ladyhawke, Magnolia, Spider-Man 2]
Amanda Peet - Paris
William Lee Scott - Lou
[The Butterfly Effect, Gone in 60 Seconds, Pearl Harbor]
Pruitt Taylor Vince - Malcolm Rivers
[Constantine, JFK, Mississippi Burning, Monster, Natural Born Killers, Trapped]

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