The Imposter

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  • Opened July 13, 2012 (NY; 8/3 LA)
  • 1 hr 35 min
  • R | Language
  • THE IMPOSTER is a chilling factual thriller that chronicles the story of a 13-year-old boy who disappears without a trace from San Antonio, Texas in 1994. Three and a half years later he is found alive, thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a story of kidnapping and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems. The boy bears many of the same distinguishing marks he always had, but why does he now have a strange accent? Why does he look so different? Any why doesn't the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It's only when an investigator starts asking questions that this strange tale takes an even stranger turn. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Frederic Bourdin, Carey Gibson, Beverly Dollarhide, Charlie Parker, Nancy Fisher, Bruce Perry, Philip French, Adam O'Brian, Anna Ruben, Cathy Dresbach, Alan Teichman, Iván Villanueva, Maria Jesus Hoyos
  • Director: Bart Layton
  • Genres: Documentary

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A CONTEMPORARY HORROR STORY OF A MISSING CHILD, HIS RESURGENCE AND THE UNBELIEVABLE AFTERMATH.

by Peneflix

In 1994, San Antonio, Texas 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay disappears, vanishes without a trace; he is blond, blue-eyed, incorrigible, loveably irritating, a bane to his mother and older brother; his...

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Monotonous - Save Your Money

by rweingard

Perhaps okay for a TV half hour news bit - not ean entire movie! If you know the premises of the movie of a thirteen-year od boy missing and allegedly resurfacing - albeit an "imposter," (all of...

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The Imposter

by totheleft

This movie evoked a range of emotions - sad, funny, anger, joy. Its believability is unbelievable. Definitely worth seeing if you are into movies like Bernie. I gotta wonder if Texas has the...

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
| Calvin Wilson

One of the best films of the year. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Tirdad Derakhshani

Gripping, hair-raising documentary. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

The documentary equivalent of a page-turner. Read full review

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A mesmerizing psychological thriller bulging with twists, turns, nasty insinuations and shocking revelations that might have leapt from the pages of a Patricia Highsmith novel, The Imposter is all the more astonishing because it actually happened. Read full review

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Adam O'Brian in "Imposter."