Identity (2003)

Strangers from all different walks of life: a limo driver escorting a movie star, parents with a young son, a cop transporting a convict, a prostitute, a young couple, and a motel manager are caught up in a nasty rainstorm, stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada. Soon they realize they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, people start getting killed off. As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they're there. Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, a psychiatrist is trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder in an eleventh hour trial. How these two through-lines are related can only be found in Identity.


Several endings were filmed in order to shroud the real conclusion in secrecy.


The poem "As I was going up the stair / I met a man who wasn't there. / He wasn't there again today / I wish, I wish he'd go away" which one of the characters claims to have written when they were young, is really a poem by Hughes Mearns.


There was some location shooting in Lancaster and other places in Los Angeles County, but the majority of the movie was shot on an enormous sound stage at Sony Studios in Culver City (the same studio that once housed the set for the Emerald City in The Wizard of Oz (1939)).


Several film critics have noted the similarity of this film to the fictional film The 3 (a film within a film in Adaptation.)


The book seen in Ed's car as he picks up Paris is "Being and Nothingness" by Jean-Paul Sartre.


Frederick Coffin's last film.


Though the dialog was removed, you can still see Ray Liotta say "I didn't do this" when he's face to face with John Cusack near the end.


Paris:That's not possible. I was standing right there. I saw what happened. We all saw what happened

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