A documentary centered on a young Frenchman who convinces a grieving Texas family that he is their 16-year-old son who has been missing for 3 years.
Nicholas was 13 the day he disappeared (June 13, 1994). He would have been 16 and 8 months when he was reported found in Spain (October 7, 1997)... In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappears without a trace from San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later he is found alive, thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a story of kidnap 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 And 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..
A masterful British doc, The Imposter tells the story of a Texan boy who went missing and suddenly ‘reappeared’ three-and-a-half years later in Spain.
To say any more about what turns out to be a remarkable story would be to spoil the outrageous, almost unbelievable twists and turns contained in this dark and fascinating doc. Consistently compelling and superbly shot (the dramatic reconstruction scenes are as cinematic as any Hollywood thriller), this one is a must-see.
The disappearance of 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay while on his way home in San Antonio, Texas, barely made the news. His family believed he was dead until a call came 3 years later saying tourists had found a traumatized teenage boy in southern Spain, believed to be Nick. His mother couldn't make the trip due to her poor health, so Nick’s older married sister Carey flew to Spain to be reunited with her brother. However this boy may not be who he says he is.