True Identity

True Identity is a 1991 comedy film directed by Charles Lane, who also stars in the film. The movie features Lenny Henry, Frank Langella, Anne-Marie Johnson, and James Earl Jones.
==Synopsis==
Miles Pope is a desperate actor who accidentally has a run in with the mob. In order to hide, he disguises himself as a white man and is hired as a hitman to kill himself.
==Cast==
*Lenny Henry as Miles Pope
*Frank Langella as Leland Carver / Frankie Luchino
*Anne-Marie Johnson as Kristi
*James Earl Jones as himself
*Charles Lane as Duane
*Peggy Lipton as Rita
*Melvin Van Peebles as Taxi Driver
*J. T. Walsh as Houston
*Andreas Katsulas as Anthony
*Austin Pendleton as Othello's Director
*Michael McKean as Harvey Cooper
*Bill Raymond as Grunfield
*Darnell Williams as Tyler
*Christopher Collins as Frank LaMotta
*Ruth Brown as Martha
*Fantasia Owens as Ruth
==Trivia==
*This remains Lenny Henry's only American movie. He was to produce three more with Disney, but following this film's flop, the other two were cancelled. He would also make the 2008 film Penelope which was an American-British co-production.
*This was the first Disney produced film to have a black director at the helm.
*The movie was inspired by a famous sketch on Saturday Night Live titled "White Like Me", which Andy Breckman wrote, wherein Eddie Murphy decides to go undercover as a white man.
*Charles Lane cast himself in the film so that he wouldn't get fired. Additionally, he made uncredited revisions to Andy Breckman's script. He asked Robert Townsend if he could borrow a scene from his film Hollywood Shuffle, which he allowed.
*Lenny Henry did the film because he felt he was capable of doing any kind of movie. In 2010, he recalled the film admitting, "When I went to America to do True Identity in 1991, I realized they had their own Richard Pryor, they didn’t need me pretending to be Richard Pryor, so I had a massive career rethink."
==Video==
True Identity Movie Trailer 1991 - TV Spot
==External links==
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Category:1991 films
Category:Touchstone Pictures films
Category:Live-action films
Category:Films
Category:R-rated films