Here's the thing about the documentary The Imposter: It may well be the scariest non-scary movie you've ever seen. It's not a supernatural horror story or a creepy slasher fic or even exactly a psychological thriller, although it will get inside your head. It's the real-life story of a boy who went missing — and the grown-man who pretended to be him. You've heard of con artists before swindling people out of their money, but what happened here is somehow even more sinister. Because The Imposter shows you how a then-23-year-old Frédéric Bourdin pretended to be a 16-year-old Nicholas Barclay, despite looking nothing like him, and how Nicholas' family improbably accepted him as their own. Who was Nicholas Barclay? (Photo Credit: YouTube) Nicholas Patrick Barclay is the name of an American boy who disappeared from San Antonio, Texas at the age of 13. Born on New Year's Eve in 1980, Nicky was...
- 3/12/2018
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- In Touch Weekly
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