The Imposter is documentary based on a true story.    The Documentary begins by describing the events that began in 1993, an eleven year old American boy called Nicholas Barkley leaves him home in San Antonio Texas but he never returns home. The police and authorities conduct searches for him but he is not found.    In Spain three years later Frederic Bourdin hears of the disappearance of Nicholas Barkley and this sets of an extraordinary chain of events. Bourdin was a desperate man in trouble, on the run from the authorities and in need of disappearing from the radar. He is picked up on a rainy night by the Spanish authorities and taken to a shelter ...  Read the complete review

FILM ONLY REVIEW Every now and again, you stumble across a documentary that makes you go 'Wow' and The Imposter is definitely one of those wow inducing documentaries. Without imparting too much of the storyline upon you, it is the true story of a French man who managed to successfully pose as a missing 16 year old Texan boy, fooling the family and a whole host of governmental authorities at the same time. this is such a well made documentary, so well edited that at times you do not know whether or not you are watching a re-enactment or the real thing. Bart Layton, the director, expertly collates interviews and events and presents them in ...  Read the complete review