The Imposter (2012) Reviews & Ratings

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The Imposter reviews

The Imposter holds a 7.3/10 average from 833 TMDB ratings.

Initially, I watched this thinking it could only happen in the USA. A woman who had never left her country and who genuinely seemed quite impressed that they had Coca Cola in Madrid was not going to prove so very hard to convince of something she wanted to be convinced of anyway! That's because her family had received news that her long-disappeared thirteen year old brother had been located thousands of miles away i…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

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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