THE IMPOSTER

Year: 2012
USA: Indomina Releasing
UK: Picturehouse Entertainment / Revolver Entertainment
Cast: Frederic Bourdin, Carey Gibson, Beverly Dollarhide, Charlie Parker, Nancy Fisher, Bryan Gibson, Codey Gibson, Bruce Perry, Philip French
Director: Bart Layton
Country: UK
USA: 95 mins
UK: 98 mins
USA Rated: R for language
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language
USA Release Date: 3 August 2012 (Limited Release - Los Angeles)
USA Release Date: 13 July 2012 (Limited Release - New York)
UK Release Date: 24 August 2012 (Limited Release)

Synopsis

THE IMPOSTER is a chilling factual thriller that chronicles the story of a 13-year-old boy who disappears without a trace from San Antonio, Texas in 1994. Three and a half years later he is found alive, thousands of miles away in a village in southern Spain with a story of kidnapping 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? Any 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.

The stranger than fiction mystery, which features many twists and turns, is told in a cinematic language that combines documentary and stylized visualizations. Perception is challenged at every turn, and just as the truth begins to dawn on you, another truth merges leaving you even more on edge.