Identity Movie Review 2003

See if this premise sounds familiar--ten strangers, an ex-cop turned chauffeur; his movie star passenger; a family with a wounded wife; a newlywed couple; a cop transporting a prisoner; and an ex-hooker are brought together (because of a severe rainstorm) at a desolate motel run by a creepy clerk. One by one they start to die in various icky and/or disturbing ways. A possibly-connected subplot involves a man on death row getting a last-minute, late-night hearing. Well-executed, if unspectacular, suspenser provides a satisfyingly twisty thrill.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 90 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

No-Exit Motel, Homicide, Psycho-Thriller, Oldest Profession, Death Row, Serial Killers, Newlyweds, Escaped Cons, Ex-Cops

Screenplay

Michael Cooney

Cast

John Cusack, Rebecca De Mornay, Ray Liotta, Jake Busey, Amanda Peet, Clea DuVall, William Lee Scott, John C. McGinley, Leila Kenzle, Bret Loehr, John Hawkes, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Alfred Molina, Matt Letscher, Carmen Argenziano, Marshall Bell, Holmes Osborne, Frederick Coffin

Cinematography

Phedon Papamichael

Director

James Mangold

Music

Alan Silvestri

Other

Jim Stuebe, David Brenner, Jess Gonchor, Arianne Phillips, Mark Friedberg

Producer

Cathy Konrad, Konrad Pictures, Columbia Pictures