The Imposter

3 Ratings: 4.3

A 2012 documentary directed by Bart Layton

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review by woopak_the_thrill. February 17

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Grief Makes Us See What We Want to See?

When a child goes missing, our heart breaks, for the child’s family it is a harrowing experience. Director Bart Layton’s “The Imposter” is a documentary about a ‘true crime’ and it brings the story of a con man named Frederic Bourdin, who impersonated a young Texas boy who had disappeared at the age of 13 in 1994. Nicholas Barclay vanished on June 13, 1994, leaving such distressing pain that drained his mother and sister dry. They desperately … more

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review by Trekscribbler. January 10

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THE IMPOSTER Is A Fact-Based Whodunnit That'll Keep You Guessing Until The Very End ... and Beyond

I don’t watch all that many documentaries. It isn’t that I don’t like them. Rather, it’s that most that I’ve seen in my life tend to go to great lengths exploring the reasons behind, say, a central behavior. The narrator and his (or her) investigators go to immeasurable lengths to uncover exactly the who’s, what’s, where’s, when’s, and why’s. Near the conclusion, they … more

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review by Chris_Pandolfi. August 03, 2012

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We Can't Even Trust What We Perceive

Star Rating: The Imposter plays like a particularly good episode of Unsolved Mysteries, not just because actual documentary footage is interspersed with reenactments, but also because the true story it tells is a thoroughly absorbing combination of intrigue and suspense. As with all good thrillers, fictional or non, what begins as a seemingly simple crime eventually escalates into something much more complicated; it’s not so much about who has done something … more

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