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Identity

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Original title

Identity

Year

2003

Running time

90 min.

Country

United States

Director

James Mangold

Screenwriter

Michael Cooney. Story: Michael Cooney

Cast

Music

Alan Silvestri

Cinematography

Phedon Papamichael

Producer

Columbia Pictures

Genre

Thriller. Horror. Mystery | Psychological Thriller. Serial Killers. Whodunit

Synopsis

Due to a string of uncanny accidents, Edward, a limo driver who is transporting a well-known Hollywood actress, runs down a wife who is standing on the side of a remote Nevada highway as her husband is repairing a flat tire. He rushes her to a nearby motel and attempts to get help, but there all the phone lines are down and the roads out flooded due to a rainstorm. Various others – a prostitute, a cop transporting a convicted killer, two newlywed teenagers – all contrive to gather at the motel during the storm. But then someone starts killing off the group, leaving a motel key that counts downwards from 10 beside each body. As the search intensifies to find which of the group is the killer, it becomes apparent that each of them has secrets to hide and that all of them being there is no coincidence. At the same time in Florida, a court hearing is hastily assembled in the middle of the night to hear new evidence as to the insanity plea of a mass murderer who is about to be executed the next day.

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Rankings Position

#141 Best Horror Movies

Awards: 2003: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): nominated to Best Action Adventure Film.

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Critics' reviews

"Far and away the most original thriller to come out of a major studio in a long while"

Marc Savlov: Austin Chronicle
"A slick, bloody thriller, but it's also, to its credit, a genuine whodunit"

Michael Wilmington: Chicago Tribune
"The movie is polished, well-acted and atmospheric, but still pure formula, and not very scary, either"

Rene Rodriguez: Miami Herald
"What starts out as a seemingly-routine excursion into genre clichés emerges into a more complex and satisfying arena"

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"Simultaneously a contrived piece of hokum and an absorbing, old-fashioned mystery"

Nathan Rabin: AV Club
"Fine escapist fare with a saving sense of humor"

Kevin Thomas: Los Angeles Times
"A fascinating movie that, if you are able to make the leap it asks of you at about the three-quarter mark, will give you something to think and talk about for days."

Jack Mathews: New York Daily News
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Ranking Lists Position

26 My Top 10 Movies from 2003 (110)
79 My Favorite Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Movies (141)
96 Movies with the Best Endings (83)

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