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On June 13th, 1994, 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay went out to play basketball with some of his friends in his home town of San Antonio, Texas. He never made it back home. Three years and four months later, the Barclay Family received a call from the American Embassy to Spain, who told them that a young man claiming to be Nicholas Barclay had been found in the country. His sister, Cary Gibson, flew all the way across the Atlantic to confirm that it was her little brother and brought him home.
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On June 13th, 1994, 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay went out to play basketball with some of his friends in his home town hometown of San Antonio, Texas. He never made it back home. Three years and four months later, the Barclay Family received a call from the American Embassy to Spain, who told them that a young man claiming to be Nicholas Barclay had been found in the country. His sister, Cary Gibson, flew all the way across the Atlantic to confirm that it was her little brother and brought him home.
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Unrelated to some [[FIlm/TheImposter 70s kung fu flick]].
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Bourdin himself was born to [[TeenPregnancy a 17-year-old mother]] who had a relationship with an Algerian man, something her racist grandfather absolutely despised and repeatedly told her to abort the child.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: DarkAndTroubledPast:
** Bourdin himself was born to [[TeenPregnancy a 17-year-old mother]] who had a relationship with an Algerian man, something her racist grandfather absolutely despised and repeatedly told her to abort the child.
** Bourdin himself was born to [[TeenPregnancy a 17-year-old mother]] who had a relationship with an Algerian man, something her racist grandfather absolutely despised and repeatedly told her to abort the child.
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* MissingChild: Your son goes out with his friends one day and then never comes home.
** Years later, someone claiming to be your son calls you and you learn just what a horrifyingly traumatic experience he's been through.
** Years later, someone claiming to be your son calls you and you learn just what a horrifyingly traumatic experience he's been through.
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* MissingChild: Your son goes out with his friends one day and then never comes home.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A French man impersonating an American teenager is ''hard.'' While the family is quick to accept him, many are very skeptical, especially factors like the time frame, his accent, eye color, facial hair, and general behavior. [[spoiler: Charlie Parker confirms it's not him thanks to the differences in their ear shape, a factor just as unique as fingerprints but far more subtle.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** A French man impersonating an American teenager is ''hard.'' While the family is quick to accept him, many are very skeptical, especially factors like the time frame, his accent, eye color, facial hair, and general behavior. [[spoiler: Charlie Parker confirms it's not him thanks to the differences in their ear shape, a factor just as unique as fingerprints but far more subtle.]]
** A French man impersonating an American teenager is ''hard.'' While the family is quick to accept him, many are very skeptical, especially factors like the time frame, his accent, eye color, facial hair, and general behavior. [[spoiler: Charlie Parker confirms it's not him thanks to the differences in their ear shape, a factor just as unique as fingerprints but far more subtle.]]
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* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: The film ends with Charlie Parker and the new resident of the old Barclay house still digging in the spot they believe Nicholas' body was buried. Whether they find anything is never made clear.]]
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* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: The film ends with Charlie Parker and the new resident of the old Barclay house still digging in the spot they believe Nicholas' body was buried. Whether they find anything is never made clear.]]]]
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* AdultFear: Your son goes out with his friends one day and then never comes home.
** Years later, someone claiming to be your son calls you and you learn just what a horrifyingly traumatic experience he's been through.
** Years later, someone claiming to be your son calls you and you learn just what a horrifyingly traumatic experience he's been through.
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* MissingChild: Your son goes out with his friends one day and then never comes home.
** Years later, someone claiming to be your son calls you and you learn just what a horrifyingly traumatic experience he's been through.
** Years later, someone claiming to be your son calls you and you learn just what a horrifyingly traumatic experience he's been through.
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''The Imposter'' is a 2012 documentary about Frédéric Bourdin, a French confidence artist who impersonated Nicholas and inserted himself into the family for five months. It tells the story both from the perspective of the Barclay family, desperate to believe their son was back, and Bourdin, desperate not to be found out, as an investigation into him and what happened to Nicholas continues on.
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''The Imposter'' is a 2012 documentary about directed by Bart Layton, which chronicles the story of Frédéric Bourdin, a French confidence artist who impersonated Nicholas and inserted himself into the family for five months. his family. It tells the story things both from the perspective of the Barclay family, desperate to believe their son was back, and Bourdin, desperate not to be found out, as an investigation into him and what happened to Nicholas continues on.
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* AntiVillain: While Bourdin is undoubtedly a criminal, he often comes across as quite sympathetic.
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** Years later, someone claiming to be your son calls you and you learn just what a horrifyingly traumatic experience he's been through.
* AntiVillain: While Bourdin is undoubtedly a criminal, he often comes across asquite sympathetic.
* AntiVillain: While Bourdin is undoubtedly a criminal, he often comes across as
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Bourdin's act is discovered and he's sent to prison before being deported back to France. The Barclays are left even more hurt and angry after his con, especially after charges of homicide are made against them, and Nicholas is still listed as a missing person to this day.]]
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** The backstory he creates to explain Nicholas' disappearance. According to him, after he got done playing basketball, he was chloroformed, blindfolded and shoved into a truck with other children by military personnel. They were taken to Europe, forced not to speak English, sexually abused and beaten daily, tortured, and experimented on.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Bourdin's act is discovered and he's sent to prison before being deported back to France. The Barclays are left even more hurt and angry after his con, especially after charges of homicide are made againstthem, and them but without enough evidence for a case. Nicholas is still listed as a missing person to this day.]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Bourdin's act is discovered and he's sent to prison before being deported back to France. The Barclays are left even more hurt and angry after his con, especially after charges of homicide are made against
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* SnowballLie: Bourdin was being held in a home for teenagers and would've been turned away or even sent to prison if he couldn't prove his identity. On a whim, he told them he was American, which lead to him being given a list of missing children in the United States to see if he could confirm his identity. He decided to tell them that he was Nicholas Barclay, which lead to them calling the boy's family, and things only escalate for Bourdin from there. All while he has no choice but to play along, terrified of the consequences if he gets found out.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A French man impersonating an American teenager is ''hard.'' While the family is quick to accept him, many are very skeptical, especially factors like the time frame, his accent, eye color, facial hair, and general behavior. [[spoiler: Charlie Parker confirms it's not him thanks to the differences in their ear shape, a factor just as unique as fingerprints but far more subtle.]]
** The backstory Bourdin concocts involves him and other children being kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused by American, Mexican and European military personnel for three years before he managed to escape. After this ends up on the news, the FBI begin investigating this supposed child trafficking ring that involves American servicemen.
* UnluckilyLucky: Bourdin ends up in an increasingly escalating series of events thanks to his lies, but repeatedly manages to convince people he really is Nicholas Barclay.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: A French man impersonating an American teenager is ''hard.'' While the family is quick to accept him, many are very skeptical, especially factors like the time frame, his accent, eye color, facial hair, and general behavior. [[spoiler: Charlie Parker confirms it's not him thanks to the differences in their ear shape, a factor just as unique as fingerprints but far more subtle.]]
** The backstory Bourdin concocts involves him and other children being kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused by American, Mexican and European military personnel for three years before he managed to escape. After this ends up on the news, the FBI begin investigating this supposed child trafficking ring that involves American servicemen.
* UnluckilyLucky: Bourdin ends up in an increasingly escalating series of events thanks to his lies, but repeatedly manages to convince people he really is Nicholas Barclay.
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->''"From as long as I remember, I wanted to be someone else"''
-->-- '''Frédéric Bourdin'''
-->-- '''Frédéric Bourdin'''
* IntrepidReporter: Charlie Parker, who decides to investigate the Nicholas Barclay story after he appears on the news [[spoiler: and proves instrumental in uncovering Bourdin.]]
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* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: The film ends with Charlie Parker and the new resident of the old Barclay house still digging in the spot they believbelieve Nicholas' body was buried. Whether they find anything is never made clear.]]
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On June 13th, 1994, 13-year-old Nicholas Barclay went out to play basketball with some of his friends in his home town of San Antonio, Texas. He never made it back home. Three years and four months later, the Barclay Family received a call from the American Embassy to Spain, who told them that a young man claiming to be Nicholas Barclay had been found in the country. His sister, Cary Gibson, flew all the way across the Atlantic to confirm that it was her little brother and brought him home.
But it wasn't him.
''The Imposter'' is a 2012 documentary about Frédéric Bourdin, a French confidence artist who impersonated Nicholas and inserted himself into the family for five months. It tells the story both from the perspective of the Barclay family, desperate to believe their son was back, and Bourdin, desperate not to be found out, as an investigation into him and what happened to Nicholas continues on.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* AdultFear: Your son goes out with his friends one day and then never comes home.
* AntiVillain: While Bourdin is undoubtedly a criminal, he often comes across as quite sympathetic.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Bourdin himself was born to [[TeenPregnancy a 17-year-old mother]] who had a relationship with an Algerian man, something her racist grandfather absolutely despised and repeatedly told her to abort the child.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Bourdin's act is discovered and he's sent to prison before being deported back to France. The Barclays are left even more hurt and angry after his con, especially after charges of homicide are made against them, and Nicholas is still listed as a missing person to this day.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Bourdin claims his motivation for serial impersonation was to find a loving home where he could feel he belonged. His time with the Barclays was one of the rare times he genuinely felt that way.
* IRejectYourReality: Even when faced with concrete evidence that Bourdin isn't Nicholas, the Barclay Family refuses to accept it, even denying [=DNA=] tests that would confirm it. [[spoiler: This leads to the suspicion that they may have actually killed Nicholas.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Jason Barclay, if he did kill Nicholas, died of a drug overdose not long after Bourdin was discovered.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Months into his stay, Bourdin comes to the conclusion that the Barclays accepted him into their home because they killed Nicholas and lied about him going missing. Whether or not they did is unknown.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Although Bourdin was 23 at the time, he had a history of pretending to be a teenager. He did so by wearing heavy clothing, such as a hoodie, a scarf and hat, never looking anyone in the eye, and only speaking on occasion and in a whispered voice.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: The film ends with Charlie Parker and the new resident of the old Barclay house still digging in the spot they believ
But it wasn't him.
''The Imposter'' is a 2012 documentary about Frédéric Bourdin, a French confidence artist who impersonated Nicholas and inserted himself into the family for five months. It tells the story both from the perspective of the Barclay family, desperate to believe their son was back, and Bourdin, desperate not to be found out, as an investigation into him and what happened to Nicholas continues on.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* AdultFear: Your son goes out with his friends one day and then never comes home.
* AntiVillain: While Bourdin is undoubtedly a criminal, he often comes across as quite sympathetic.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Bourdin himself was born to [[TeenPregnancy a 17-year-old mother]] who had a relationship with an Algerian man, something her racist grandfather absolutely despised and repeatedly told her to abort the child.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Bourdin's act is discovered and he's sent to prison before being deported back to France. The Barclays are left even more hurt and angry after his con, especially after charges of homicide are made against them, and Nicholas is still listed as a missing person to this day.]]
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Bourdin claims his motivation for serial impersonation was to find a loving home where he could feel he belonged. His time with the Barclays was one of the rare times he genuinely felt that way.
* IRejectYourReality: Even when faced with concrete evidence that Bourdin isn't Nicholas, the Barclay Family refuses to accept it, even denying [=DNA=] tests that would confirm it. [[spoiler: This leads to the suspicion that they may have actually killed Nicholas.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Jason Barclay, if he did kill Nicholas, died of a drug overdose not long after Bourdin was discovered.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Months into his stay, Bourdin comes to the conclusion that the Barclays accepted him into their home because they killed Nicholas and lied about him going missing. Whether or not they did is unknown.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Although Bourdin was 23 at the time, he had a history of pretending to be a teenager. He did so by wearing heavy clothing, such as a hoodie, a scarf and hat, never looking anyone in the eye, and only speaking on occasion and in a whispered voice.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: The film ends with Charlie Parker and the new resident of the old Barclay house still digging in the spot they believ
