''False Identity'' is a 1990 American

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directed by

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. It stars

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and

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.Wilmington, Michael (June 8, 1990). "Movie review: ‘False Identity’ a film pretender, despite star cast". ''

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''. p. 10.

Plot summary

When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a

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at a garage sale she decides to find out its history. She finds that the medal belonged to a man named Harlan Erickson, a long-lost brother of the town's leading citizen.

Cast

as Ben Driscoll / Harlan Errickson *

as Rachel Roux *

Tobin Bell Tobin Bell (born Joseph Henry Tobin Jr.; August 7, 1942) is an American actor. Appearing in over 100 titles during a five-decade career, he is most recognized for his role as John Kramer / Jigsaw in the ''Saw'' franchise. Bell started his a ...

as Marshall Errickson *

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as Vera Errickson *

Mimi Maynard Mimi Maynard is an American film and television actress and voice artist. Career Since 1975, she has appeared in at least ten films and seventeen television productions, including voicing the character "I.Q's Mom" in the animated family-adventu ...

as Audrey *

Michael Champion Michael Edward Campbell Champion (November 3, 1946, in Anderson, Indiana – June 16, 2021) was an American singer and actor who started his public career in Detroit. In 1967, with a short-lived band called 'The Abstract Reality', he released a ...

as Luther * Todd Jeffries as Chad Erickson * Anne Bloom as Elise *

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as Tommy * Tom McFadden as Sheriff (credited as Thom McFadden) *

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as Frank Calovich *

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as Angela Errickson *

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as Irving Campbell * Robert Fredrickson as Ralph Murphy * Kimberly Beck as Cindy Roger *

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as Nellie (credited as Pat Crawford)

References

External links

* 1990 films Films directed by James Keach American crime thriller films RKO Pictures films 1990 directorial debut films Films scored by Barry Goldberg 1990s English-language films 1990s American films {{crime-thriller-film-stub