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Where is all this going, you ask? Good question.
Rafer Guzman, Newsday
The Identical
If He is in your dream, nothing can stand against them.
2014 · 1h 47m · PG
Drama, Music
Directed by
Dustin Marcellino
Overview
During the Great Depression, identical twins are separated at birth. One, Drexel Hemsley becomes a wildly successful '50s rock star, while the other, Ryan Wade, struggles to balance his passion for music and pleasing his parents, who want him to become a preacher. Finally, Ryan rebels against his parents' wishes and launches his own music career -- performing the hits of Drexel Hemsley. Ryan later learns the truth about Drexel when their fates tragically collide.
Director and cast
- Dustin Marcellino Director
- Blake Rayne as Ryan Wade / Drexel Hemsley
- Ashley Judd as Louise Wade
- Ray Liotta as Reece Wade
- Amanda Crew as Helen Hemsley
- Seth Green as Dino
- Danny Woodburn as Damon
- Brian Geraghty as William Hemsley
- Joe Pantoliano as Avi Hirshberg
- Erin Cottrell as Jenny O'Brien
- Waylon Payne as Tony Nash
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
It's stocked with cliches, but they're arranged in such weird ways that the end result is both predictable and certifiable. If only any of it actually went somewhere.
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
Connoisseurs of the most wonderfully terrible cinema need to run out and catch this one early and often.
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap
Rotten
"The Identical" is ultimately too schematically sentimental, even with Liotta playing against type, to have much of an impact.
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Trading strictly in visual and narrative cliches, The Identical is so solemn and silly that at times you could swear it was a lampoon.
David Hiltbrand, Philadelphia Inquirer
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