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Identity (2003) More at IMDbPro »

• 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. (2002)).
  
  
• The book seen in Ed's car as he picks up Paris is "Being and Nothingness" by Jean-Paul Sartre.
  
  
• The complete names of the characters in motel are: - Edward 'Ed' Dakota - Samuel Rhodes - Paris Nevada - George York - Alice York - Timmy York - Larry Washington - Caroline Suzanne - Virginia "Ginny" Isiana - Lou Isiana - Robert Maine
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• The odds of all ten characters having the same birthday are approximately 1 in 115,694,315,636,972,669,502,854 (that's about 1 in 115 sextillion).
  
  
• The film that Ginny (played by Clea DuVall) was referring to when she said: "Remember that movie where ten strangers went to an island and then they all die one by one and then turn out they were not strangers, they all had a connection?" is And Then There Were None (1945).
  
  
• The proprietor of the motel is named Bates, an obvious allusion to Psycho (1960). An in-joke to that comes later when Rebecca De Mornay is killed while wrapped inside of a shower curtain.
  
  
• Bret Loehr gets only one line of dialogue in the whole film. And even then, some of it is spoken first by Pruitt Taylor Vince.
  
  

• SPOILER: Several endings were filmed in order to shroud the real conclusion in secrecy.
  
  
• SPOILER: A life-size dummy was created to depict the murdered character played by Jake Busey, with a baseball bat lodged in his throat. One of the studio executives asked to keep the dummy as a souvenir, and stored it in his office closet. One night a cleaning woman opened the closet and was frightened out of her wits. The dummy was removed from the offices immediately after that incident.
  
  
• SPOILER: The Killer is only ever physically seen by the audience once prior to the revelation of his identity at the end. He can be seen at Caroline Suzanne's motel room window through a muslin drape while she is standing at the mirror.
  
  
• SPOILER: The naked business man Paris tied to the bed at the beginning of the movie is one of Malcolm's identities; he is also the agent Caroline Suzanne is speaking to on the phone. He was penned as the first identity in the movie to "die", but the scenes were shaved from the movie.
  
  
• SPOILER: The motel manager corpse that was hidden in the freezer by Larry is played by Stuart M. Besser, the executive producer and production manager for the movie.
  
  
• SPOILER: Leila Kenzle would sometimes be replaced with a dummy throughout shooting, such as just after she's died.
  
  

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