The Identical

Name: The Identical
Genre: Drama, Music
Released: September 5, 2014
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 25
Cast: Ashley Judd, Blake Rayne, Brian Geraghty, Joe Pantoliano, Ray Liotta

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Freestyle Releasing | Release Date: September 5, 2014 | PG

Starring: Ashley Judd, Blake Rayne, Brian Geraghty, Joe Pantoliano, Ray Liotta, Seth Green

Summary: The son of a preacher rejects his father’s desire for him to join the ministry and instead embarks on a career as a rock singer. As he struggles to pursue his dream and rise to stardom, he finds love, pain, success and failure, and ultimately uncovers a hidden family secret that reveals who he really is. It’s a captivating story about aThe son of a preacher rejects his father’s desire for him to join the ministry and instead embarks on a career as a rock singer. As he struggles to pursue his dream and rise to stardom, he finds love, pain, success and failure, and ultimately uncovers a hidden family secret that reveals who he really is. It’s a captivating story about a family restored, and a life discovered.… Expand

Director: Dustin Marcellino

Genre(s): Drama, Music

Rating: PG

Runtime: 107 min

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Bill Stamets

Sep 5, 2014

The Identical evangelizes and entertains with sincere mediocrity. If the style is unremarkably mainstream, the message is theologically murky. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Sep 3, 2014

It’s the kind of curio that’s arguably more interesting to think about than to watch — a plodding melodrama that mixes royalty-free Elvis worship with preachy proselytizing. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Sep 4, 2014

All things considered, The Identical might have worked better as a TV miniseries, a format that would allowed the filmmakers to give equal time to Hemsley’s story. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Sep 4, 2014

Even allowing The Identical its premise, the reframing of the Elvis myth as a wholesome example of following God’s plan is not as inspirational as the film seems to believe. Rock fantasies are rarely this milquetoast. Read full review

Marc Mohan

Sep 5, 2014

Everyone on screen looks like they'd rather be anywhere else than under the control of novice director Dustin Marcellino, whose first (and hopefully last) feature this is. Read full review

McClatchy-Tribune News Service Roger Moore

Sep 3, 2014

A musical mashup of Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis biography and myth, The Identical plays like a failed faith-based “Inside Llewyn Davis.” And that’s the closest thing to a compliment it will get. Read full review

Chuck Bowen

Aug 30, 2014

The film's so preoccupied with being "inspirational" that it disastrously fails to evoke the allure of rock n' roll, particularly in America in the 1950s, when it represented an erosion of racial and sexual barriers. Read full review

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HollywoodCowgrl

Sep 12, 2014

I liked it! Ray has a sermon where he honors Israel and he explains how God loves the Jews.
It serves it's purpose and it has a message. Don't be so quick to criticize something that is intrinsically good.

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tonimiller417

Nov 2, 2015

Story from the heart and I loved the music.

Watch it online for free http://www.watchfree.to/watch-2a0c17-The-Identical-movie-online-free-putlocker.html

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tvnewsguido

Jan 2, 2015

It's an OK movie... if you've never seen or heard of Elvis and know nothing about the early days of Rock and Roll.

The casting of a Presley lookalike is unforgivably distracting in what could have been a decent little rock and roll fable. The music, being central to the plot, is alsoIt's an OK movie... if you've never seen or heard of Elvis and know nothing about the early days of Rock and Roll.

The casting of a Presley lookalike is unforgivably distracting in what could have been a decent little rock and roll fable.

The music, being central to the plot, is also a major failing. One or two songs hit the right early rock feel - then it goes completely off track.

The biggest musical failure comes during a faux Ed Sullivan show when they trot out a 90s power ballad, (think about how well "That Thing You Do" pegged the sounds of the early 60s then imagine they stuck in some Pearl Jam in the middle). Then, to make matters worse, that song is repeated throughout the rest of the story.

Every time you think you might to buy into the premise of "The Identical" they do something incredibly stupid to remind you that you're watching a poorly rendered facsimile of what might have been a decent movie.… Expand

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TVJerry

Sep 12, 2014

In this peculiar twist on the separated-at-birth scenario, one twin becomes a famous rock star, while the other struggles with his calling…is it God or Rock and Roll? To make it even more bizarre, the man who plays both twins (Blake Rayne in his awful acting debut) is a former ElvisIn this peculiar twist on the separated-at-birth scenario, one twin becomes a famous rock star, while the other struggles with his calling…is it God or Rock and Roll? To make it even more bizarre, the man who plays both twins (Blake Rayne in his awful acting debut) is a former Elvis impersonator, who bears an uncanny look and sound to a cartoon version of The King. Why would they use such an obvious Elvis in a story that isn't about Elvis? Ray Liotta, who plays his preacher father, has plumbed the nadir of his career, then you discover that he's Exec Producer…yikes! The script feels like the worst TV movie ever, the pacing is torture and the original songs are banal and obvious. This is the true meaning of a disaster movie. It only earned 2 points for the hilarious period art direction/wardrobe.… Expand

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lomeli

Apr 27, 2015

The WORST movie I have ever seen. EVER. I "went to the bathroom" several times in the film just to get away from this horrendous mess of a film. Words cannot describe how truly awful this film is.

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