Feature trailer for the documentary The Imposter.
It's 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later, he is found alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain. Disoriented and quivering with fear, he divulges his shocking story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not what it seems. Sure, he has the same tattoos, but he looks decidedly different, and he now speaks with a strange accent. Why doesn't the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It's only when an investigator starts asking questions that this astounding true story takes an even stranger turn.
Like his canny subject, gifted filmmaker Bart Layton pulls off an astonishing coup. Buoyed by eye-catching dramatizations and an enthralling structure that crisscrosses time and place, The Imposter unfolds as a gripping thriller that leaves us dizzy, yet certain that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction.
2 min 21 sec
Views
226,926
Posted On
July 23, 2012
Bart Layton
Writer
Unknown or Not Available
Studio
The Indomina Group
Release
July 13, 2012
Frédéric Bourdin
Carey Gibson
Beverly Dollarhide
Charlie Parker
Nancy Fisher
No Music Available