The Identical “Cheap Copy”
Sep 10th
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
THE IDENTICAL is not a very good movie about what might have happened if Elvis Presley’s twin brother had not died at birth, but had been given away to another couple who couldn’t have children.
The other couple are evangelist preacher Reece Wade, played by Ray Liotta, and his wife, Louise, played by Ashley Judd.
So, the movie follows their lives and the life of their adopted son, whom they name Ryan Wade, rather than the life of the more successful twin brother, who becomes a very successful singer named Drexel “The Dream” Hemsley.
The story begins in 1935, the same year in which Elvis was born, in Decatur, Alabama, where Helen Hemsley gives birth to twin boys and says to her husband, “William, Honey, meet your sons.”
But times are hard, it is the middle of the Great Depression, and William doesn’t have a job, but he had recently attended a revival meeting where Reverend Wade had revealed that he and his wife had not been able to have children.
So, believing that they could raise one child but not two, and taking the expression “It is better to give than to receive” to heart, the Hemsleys give one of the twin boys to Reverend Wade and his wife to raise, making them promise to keep the secret, and then pretending to bury that son and telling people that he had died at birth.
Well, naturally, Reverend Wade wants Ryan to have a calling and to follow him into preaching for a life, but Ryan has other interests, such as music, and he seems to have a talent for that, even taking his guitar with him when he spends two years in the Army and singing for his buddies in his job in the motor pool.
Ryan eventually convinces his father that he doesn’t have the calling to be a preacher and moves out on his own, dating a girl named Jenny, whom he had met when they were younger, and finally marrying her.
Meanwhile, Drexel has become a huge success, people remark how much Ryan looks like Drexel, and when Ryan wins a Drexel impersonating contest, his own singing career takes off, being billed as “The Identical,” as in the identical copy of Drexel “The Dream” Hemsley.
THE IDENTICAL is a very cheap copy of Elvis.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
The Identical – Movie Trailer
Sep 7th
Identical twin brothers (both played by Blake Rayne) are separated at birth during the Great Depression. Their parents (Brian Geraghty, Amanda Crew) just cannot afford to give them both a life beyond poverty, so one is adopted by loving family. Despite their very different upbringings, the boys’ shared passion for music causes their lives to unknowingly intersect as they experience a powerful and mysterious connection often felt by twins.
The November Man – Movie Trailer
Sep 2nd
Code named ‘The November Man’, Peter Devereaux (Pierce Brosnan) is a lethal and highly trained ex-CIA agent, who has been enjoying a quiet life in Switzerland. When Devereaux is lured out of retirement for one last mission, he must protect valuable witness, Alice Fournier, (Olga Kurylenko). He soon uncovers this assignment marks him a target of his former friend and CIA protégé David Mason (Luke Bracey). With growing suspicions of a mole in the agency, there is no one Devereaux can trust, no rules and no holds barred. With a screenplay by Michael Finch & Karl Gajdusek based on Bill Granger’s novel “There are No Spies” from the bestselling November Man book series, THE NOVEMBER MAN is the ultimate cat and mouse game set in the world of international espionage.
