Not that THE IDENTICAL is not interesting, it is bogged down borrowing freely from the legendary life of Elvis Presley. Reviewed by Michael O'Keefe 8 / 10 Basically a twist on the Elvis story. All the way into manhood he wrestles with pleasing Reverend Wade, his loving but controlling father, who is convinced his son Ryan is called into the ministry. His adopted brother, Ryan Wade (also played by Blake Rayne) struggles to find the purpose for his life. Drexel Hemsley (Blake Rayne) rises like a comet and changes the music world forever. Both brothers are born with passion, drive and awesome musical talent, but take very separate, yet converging paths.
But their joy is quickly tempered by a sobering realization how could they give these children any kind of a life beyond the desperate poverty that haunted many families in the midst of the Great Depression? When evangelist Reece Wade (Ray Liotta) reveals that he and his wife Louise (Ashley Judd) cannot have children, William feels the Lord's prompting to give them one of the infant boys. In 1936, William and Helen Hemsley (Brian Geraghty, Amanda Crew) welcome identical twin boys into the world.
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