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The Imposter
UNITED KINGDOM · 2012

The Imposter

Bart Layton
identity deception missing persons family betrayal psychological manipulation unreliable narrator
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Synopsis

In 1994, a 13-year-old boy disappeared without a trace from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three-and-a-half years later, he is found alive in a village in southern Spain with a horrifying story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not quite as it seems.

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