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-John
Cusack
-Rebecca
De
Mornay
-Ray
Liotta
IDENTITY,
directed
by
James
Mangold,
is a
thriller
set
at
an
isolated
motel
in
rural
Nevada
during
an
unrelenting
rainstorm.
With
all
roads
washed
out
and
all
forms
of
communication
dead,
a
group
of
people
become
stranded
at
the
motel
along
with
the
shifty
manager
(John
Hawkes).
Among
the
stranded
are
Ed (John
Cusack),
a
former
cop
turned
limo
driver;
Caroline
(Rebecca
De
Mornay),
a
self-absorbed
actress;
Paris
(Amanda
Peet),
a
prostitute
attempting
to
escape
her
profession;
Rhodes
(Ray
Liotta),
a
cop
transporting
a
prisoner
(Jake
Busey);
Lou
(William
Lee
Scott)
and
Ginny
(Clea
DuVall),
bickering
newlyweds;
and
George
(John
McGinley)
and
Alice
(Leila
Kenzle),
a
married
couple
travelling
with
their
young
son.
Soon
the
waterlogged
lodgers
start
dying
in
mysterious--and
brutal--ways,
and
the
increasingly
dwindling
number
of
survivors
must
discover
the
killer
to
prevent
their
own
demises.
Riveting
from
the
opening
sequence,
Mangold's
suspenseful
murder
mystery
wastes
no
time
in
turning
on
the
tension.
Realizing
that
truly
scary
cinema
comes
from
the
unknown
and
the
unexpected,
Mangold
and
screenwriter
Michael
Cooney
keep
the
audience--and
the
film's
characters--in
the
dark
and
continually
create
situations
that
go
from
bad
to
worse
for
the
luckless
travelers.
Cusack
anchors
the
film
as
the
resigned
but
noble
former
policeman,
while
Peet
reveals
a
depth
previously
unseen
in
her
other
movies.
Actors
such
as
Liotta,
McGinley,
Hawkes,
and
De
Mornay
round
out
the
fine
ensemble
cast.
As
with
many
thrillers,
IDENTITY
has
a
big
twist,
but
because
of
the
filmmakers'
excellent
slight
of
hand,
it's
unlikely
viewers
will
predict
the
bizarre
outcome.
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