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PG-13
ActionMysteryThriller
6.677/10(3,890 ratings)

A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

02-16-2011
1h 53m
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Main Cast

Liam Neeson

Liam Neeson

He was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland and educated at Saint Patrick's College, Ballymena Technical College and Queen's University Belfast. He moved to Dublin after university to further his acting career, joining the renowned Abbey Theatre. In the early 1990s, he moved again to the United States, where the wide acclaim for his performance in Schindler's List led to more high-profile work. He is widowed and lives in New York with his two sons. An Irish actor who has been nominated for an Oscar, a BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards. He has starred in a number of notable roles including Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Peyton Westlake in Darkman, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Alfred Kinsey in Kinsey, Ras Al Ghul in Batman Begins and the voice of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia film series. He has also starred in several other notable films, from major Hollywood studio releases (ie. Excalibur, The Dead Pool, Nell, Rob Roy, The Haunting, Love Actually, Kingdom of Heaven, Taken, Clash of the Titans, The A-Team, Unknown) to smaller arthouse films (ie. Deception, Breakfast on Pluto, Chloe). Description from the Wikipedia article Liam Neeson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Diane Kruger

Diane Kruger

Diane Kruger (born 15 July 1976) is a German and American actress. Early in her career, Kruger gained worldwide recognition and received the Trophée Chopard from the Cannes Film Festival. Kruger became known for her roles in film as Helen in the epic war film Troy (2004), Dr. Abigail Chase in the heist film National Treasure (2004) and its 2007 sequel, Bridget von Hammersmark in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds (2009), and Gina in the psychological thriller film Unknown (2011). She also starred as Detective Sonya Cross in the FX crime drama series The Bridge (2013–14). In 2017, she made her German-language debut in Fatih Akin's In the Fade, for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.

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January Jones

January Jones

January Kristen Jones (born January 5, 1978) is an American actress and model who played Betty Draper in Mad Men (2007–2015), for which she was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She also portrayed Melissa Chartres in The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018) and has starred in films such as American Wedding (2003), We Are Marshall (2006), The Boat That Rocked (2009), Unknown (2011), Seeking Justice (2011), and X-Men: First Class (2011).

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Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn

Aidan Quinn is an Irish-American actor. He made his film debut in 1984 in Reckless. His films include Desperately Seeking Susan, The Mission, Stakeout, Benny and Joon, Legends of the Fall, Frankenstein, and Michael Collins. He played the role of Captain Thomas "Tommy" Gregson in the CBS television series Elementary (2012–2019). Quinn has received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his work in An Early Frost (1985) and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007).

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Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz (March 22, 1941 – February 16, 2019) was a Swiss actor who debuted at the theatre in 1961 and gained there a good reputation as a solid, young actor. In 1970 he founded with 'Peter Stein' the theatre company "Schaubuehne" of Berlin. His debut at the movies was early and unsuccessful in 1960. Only in 1975 after "Sommergaeste (1975)" he could show his talent as a reflexive actor with tendencies towards introspection.

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Frank Langella

Frank Langella

Frank A. Langella, Jr. (born January 1, 1938) is an American stage and film actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Langella, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Koch

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sebastian Koch (born 31 May 1962) is a German actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sebastian Koch , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Rainer Bock

Rainer Bock

After graduating from high school, Rainer Bock ran a café in his hometown, which also had a cabaret programme. After studying acting at a private acting school in Kiel, he made his debut as a theater actor on the stages of the state capital of Kiel in 1982. He came to Heidelberg and the National Theater Mannheim via the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater. From 1995 to 2001 he had an engagement at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. Until 2011 he was engaged at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. Bock often appears in supporting roles, including his initially rare appearances in film and television. The part of the doctor in Michael Haneke's award-winning drama The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009) earned him a nomination for the German Film Prize. In 2011 he was represented at the Berlinale with four films. Bock is also active as an audio book speaker.

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Mido Hamada

Mido Hamada

Mido Hamada (born 1971) is a German-Egyptian actor having played roles in film, theater and television. Hamada attended the Oxford School of Drama. He lives in London, England. His roles include Ahmed Shah Massoud in the television mini-series The Path to 9/11 and smaller roles in the British television series "Hannibal" and "Feel the Force". In 2004, he also played a role in the blockbuster film, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Hamada has most recently finished shooting a film "The Situation" in which he played Zaid, an Iraqi photographer. Hamada appeared in the Fox hit series 24 as Samir Mehran. Samir, a rogue intelligence agent from the fictional Middle-Eastern country of Kamistan attempting to, and later successfully assassinating its elected president, Omar Hassan (Anil Kapoor). He served as the season's arch-villain for most of its episodes.

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Karl Markovics

Karl Markovics

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Karl Markovics (born August 29, 1963) is an Austrian actor. He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year. Prior to that, his most notable appearances have been in the highly-acclaimed Austrian (Viennese) black comedy Komm, süßer Tod (2001), his role as far-right terrorist Franz Fuchs in the 2007 TV movie Franz Fuchs - Ein Patriot, and in the police drama television series Inspector Rex. His character from Inspector Rex had his own spin-off series, Stockinger. Markovics remains a frequent stage actor, and in April 2010 played the non-singing role of Samiel in Counterfeiters-director Ruzowitzky's first opera production, Der Freischütz at Vienna's Theater an der Wien. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karl Markovics, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Eva Löbau

Eva Löbau

Eva Löbau is an Austrian actress. She is perhaps best known for her playing the protagonist in acclaimed director's Maren Ade's feature film debut, 'The Forest for the Trees', for which Löbau won the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2005 prize for best main actor. Since 2017, she also plays one of the commissars in Germany's longest running crime series, 'The Scene of the Crime'.

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Sanny van Heteren

Sanny van Heteren

German-born Sanny grew up in southern Spain and began making appearances as part of the local theatre community at eight years of age. She later moved to London, England attending "Hurtwood House" the boarding school that Emily Blunt, Hans Zimmer and Jack Huston also came from. During her early adult years, she moved to New York and financed her dreams of acting with her position as co-owner of the restaurant "Moomba". Once more, Sanny moved closer to where her acting dreams would be achieved: California. Her film and television work include the sci-fi western High Plains Invaders (2009) Unknown(2011) Hellraiser: Revelations (2011) and Underworld: Awakening (2012).

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Petra Schmidt-Schaller

Petra Schmidt-Schaller

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Vladimir Pavic

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Oliver Stolz

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Movie Details

Production Info

Director:
Jaume Collet-Serra
Production:
Panda Productions, Dark Castle Entertainment
Revenue:
$130,786,397
Budget:
$30,000,000

Key Crew

Screenplay:
Stephen Cornwell
Screenplay:
Oliver Butcher
Editor:
Timothy Alverson
Producer:
Joel Silver
Production Coordinator:
Stephen Bender

Locations and Languages

Country:
US
Filming:
US
Languages:
en