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Vincent Towers (Michael Harris) and Clay Arlington (Dennis Haysbert), identical looking half-brothers, do not meet until their father's funeral. Vincent convinces Clay to switch lives with him, and Clay accepts. Clay, however, doesn't know that Vincent killed their father and, in an effort to fake his own death and get away with the crime, plans to murder Clay as well. Clay lives through the first attempt on his life. But, left amnesic and confused, how long can he survive?

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Michael Sragow New Yorker It pivots on questions of what constitutes identity-the internal stuff of life or the external components of race, wealth, and status. May 8, 2017 Full Review Anton Bitel Little White Lies a bold, confident debut that knows exactly what it is, and has a lot of fun letting its viewers reconstruct and reconcile its separated pieces. For here everything - and nothing - is black and white. Jul 5, 2016 Full Review Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times It's the kind of movie that holds your attention and is splendid to look at, but after it's over you feel empty, because there wasn't much there, really, except for the visual ideas. Rated: 2.5/4 Jan 1, 2000 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com A quality film that never quite found the audience it deserved. Rated: 2.5/4.0 Sep 24, 2020 Full Review Charles Mudede The Stranger (Seattle, WA) This is neo-noir at its strangest and boldest. Aug 22, 2018 Full Review Malcolm Johnson Hartford Courant McGehee and Siegel unfold this deep psychological tale with blurry flashes and flashbacks from Clay's fragmented mind. The scenes in the present have an unfocussed look, too. It is all rather like a B-picture from the '50s. May 15, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I watched this nearly 16 years ago. My head still hurts. Recommend. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member An odd, unique and stylized experimental film that seems to have been forgotten. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Stylish film that never manages to go anywhere very interesting with all of its visual ideas.. This black and white puzzler tries to be clever about a host of issues (personal identity, memory, racial bias) with only limited success. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member A bit of serious work. Still trying to work out the black and white issue. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Frances H Although visually interesting in the filming style of an old Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode, the plot and length should have followed that series' conventions. The movie dragged on and on to feature film length and the twist of nobody recognizing that the two men were very different, not only of two different races, but very different size and body types was belabored to the point of ridiculousness. The screenwriter and director just brat this point to death in the dialogue--the idea of these very opposite men being so similar that nobody knows the truth of the switch of Clay for Vincent. The ink blots with identically opposite sides, Vincent's birthday making his zodiac sign a Gemini, Clay only wearing all white clothes just like Vincent's after he takes Vincent's place, Mrs. Lucerne saying that even though her birds look Identical, she could still always tell them apart, the fact that one of the birds is dead, all of the stark white in Vincent's houses just too much. The issue is bludgeoned into us. And then we never do find out what Alice Jameson's relationship is to Vincent and his father.The one unusual point is hammered into us ad nauseum, while the end is no surprise. The visual style and one discrepancy from reality is just not enough to sustain a feature length film. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 09/06/13 Full Review Audience Member Ridiculous to say the least. If the Director is going make us do the "pretending" that this world is color blind then perhaps we should also pretend that color doesn't exists at all. The voice is completely different as well. Let's look at the hair as well. Come on. Only his hair dresser knows. The Psychiatrists is Asian are we to pretend he is German. "I think you amnesia is founded on the bases that you want to have sex with your mother." Give me a break. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Vincent Towers (Michael Harris) and Clay Arlington (Dennis Haysbert), identical looking half-brothers, do not meet until their father's funeral. Vincent convinces Clay to switch lives with him, and Clay accepts. Clay, however, doesn't know that Vincent killed their father and, in an effort to fake his own death and get away with the crime, plans to murder Clay as well. Clay lives through the first attempt on his life. But, left amnesic and confused, how long can he survive?
Director
Scott McGehee
Production Co
Kino Korsakoff
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 9, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$98.3K
Runtime
1h 36m
Sound Mix
Surround, Stereo
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