10 Awesome Mistaken Identity Movies
Though mistaken identity is a relatively infrequent incident in real life, it's one of the few movie concepts that can create fertile ground for both comic and serious ventures almost from the outset. Is there not just something tantalising about seeing someone thrown into an excessive situation, entirely out of their depth? As they struggle to re-assert their own identity and eschew the one they've been saddled with, it's an extremely versatile concept that has been a hugely successful formula for Hollywood movies over the decades. Also somewhat timely with today's constant fears about identity theft - hence the box office success of the recent Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy-starring vehicle Identity Thief - the genre, like many of the best, taps into an inherent fear, something that is ticking over in our minds even if we're not always consciously obsessed with it. After all, if the ever-proposed Orwellian biometric identification measures eventually become a reality, is this not a far more likely prospect? In the meantime, revel in these 10 supremely entertaining mistaken identity movies...