IDENTITY
The film tells two stories. Ten strangers, after a series of accidents, find themselves stranded at the same motel during a rainstorm, where they start suffering increasingly horrible deaths. Elsewhere, at an emergency midnight meeting, a doctor attempts to convince a judge that a condemned serial killer about to go to his death is, in fact, insane and cannot be held accountable for his actions. The convergence of these two stories marks an unusual plot twist.
Characters
* John Cusack as Ed Dakota, a limousine driver for actress Caroline Suzanne. Ed turns out to be an experienced police officer on extended medical leave due to the pressures of the job; his sense of duty and police instincts re-emerge during the crisis at the motel.
* Ray Liotta as Rhodes, a hotheaded police detective transporting a convicted serial killer.
* Amanda Peet as Paris, a prostitute who is on her way home, hoping to leave her old life behind.
* John Hawkes (né Perkins) as Larry Washington, a compulsive gambler who wandered into a motel and, finding the manager dead, decided on a whim to become the de facto manager when travelers unexpectedly showed up and asked him for a room.
* Clea DuVall as Ginny, a newlywed, married to Lou.
* John C. McGinley as George York, the high strung, orderly husband of Alice York and step-father of Timmy York.
* William Lee Scott as Lou, Ginny's unloving husband.
* Jake Busey as Robert Maine, a convicted serial killer being transported across Nevada.
* Pruitt Taylor Vince as Malcolm Rivers, a convicted serial killer who suffers from dissociative identity disorder and is about to be executed.
* Alfred Molina as Dr. Malick, a psychiatrist working for Rivers' defense.
* Rebecca De Mornay as Caroline Suzanne, a high maintenance B-movie star who is being driven by Ed. She is very insincere after Ed accidentally hits Alice with his car.
* Carmen Argenziano as Defense Lawyer.
* Marshall Bell as District Attorney.
* Leila Kenzle as Alice York, wife of George York and mother of Timmy York.
* Matt Letscher as Assistant District Attorney.
* Bret Loehr as Timmy York, the young son of Alice York and step-son of George York
* Holmes Osborne as Judge Taylor.
* Frederick Coffin as Detective Varole.
* Joe Hart as Bailiff Jenkins.
* Michael Hirsch as Naked Businessman.
* Terence Bernie as Hines Bailiff.
* Stuart M. Besser as Frozen Body.