The Imposter (2012)

The descriptor "bizarre" doesn’t begin to do this documentary justice. A 23-year old Parisian felon decides to pretend he’s a teen to be put into the relatively safe shelter of a children’s home. He gets in over his head when he claims to be an American...and then,  to be a specific child who'd been missing from San Antonio for three years. He fools the police, the embassy, and then even the family of the missing child -- even though this dark, stubbled man with brown eyes looks nothing like the blonde, blue-eyed kid. It only gets more crazy and unbelievable from there.

Compelling subject, but there was a lot left unexplained. I wanted answers that I never got. Still, fascinating.

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