True Identity Movie Review 1991

Henry, a comic superstar in England, stars as an innocent black man marked for death by the Mafia. He hides by disguising himself as white and gets a taste of life on the other side of the color line. The interesting premise was based on a classic Eddie Murphy sketch on "Saturday Night Live," but isn't treated with sufficient imagination or humor here.

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Available on VHS
Running time 94 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Not-So-True Identity, Organized Crime, Mistaken Identity

Screenplay

Andy Breckman

Cast

Lenny Henry, Frank Langella, Anne-Marie Johnson, Charles Lane

Director

Charles Lane

Producer

Touchstone Pictures