An FBI Agent is hot on the tracks of Frédéric Fortin who has taken up the identity of a woman's long lost son, completely convincing the police and the boy's family of his identity.An FBI Agent is hot on the tracks of Frédéric Fortin who has taken up the identity of a woman's long lost son, completely convincing the police and the boy's family of his identity.An FBI Agent is hot on the tracks of Frédéric Fortin who has taken up the identity of a woman's long lost son, completely convincing the police and the boy's family of his identity.
Ritchie Montgomery
- Diner Owner
- (as Ritchie Montgomerey)
Lance E. Nichols
- FBI Doctor
- (as Lance Nichols)
Lindsay Soileau
- Girl #1
- (as Lindsey Soileau)
Katy Peppard
- Girl #2
- (as Katy Preppard)
Gio March
- Spanish Policeman
- (as a different name)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaLoosely based on the story of Frédéric Bourdin, a French serial impostor nicknamed "The Chameleon" by the press. In 1997 Bourdin claimed to be Nicholas Barclay, a Texas native that disappeared 3 years earlier. Although Bourdin had brown eyes and a French accent, he convinced the family he was their blue-eyed son, saying he had escaped from a child prostitution ring. Bourdin lived with the family for almost 5 months until March 6, 1998. In late 1997 a local private investigator grew suspicious while working with a TV crew that had been filming the family. In February 1998 the FBI got a court order to take the young man's fingerprints and DNA, which later identified him as Bourdin. In September 1998, Bourdin pleaded guilty to passport fraud and perjury in a San Antonio federal court. He was imprisoned for six years.
- Goofs(at around 33 mins) Brendan Kerrigan (Nick Stahl) is driving a burgundy colored Camaro with a spoiler on the trunk, and (at around 18 mins) he is clearly driving a burgundy colored Trans Am with no spoiler.
- Quotes
Kimberly Miller: I was never a very good mother to you. I guess you forgot that too, huh?
- ConnectionsReferences Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983)
- SoundtracksCause and Effect
Written by Simon Steadman and Nicholas Jonathan Tyler
Performed by Pet Robot
Produced by by Simon Steadman and Nicholas Jonathan Tyler
Featured review
I felt like a chameleon after watching this
(2010) The Chameleon
PSYCHOLOGICAL MYSTERY DRAMA
It says right at the beginning that it's based on a true story, but when you watch it, it's just as tediously pointless despite showing some well known actors. It opens the movie in France, with a police car stopping on the middle of a freeway, after seeing a young man encroached naked while on the middle of the road. And after the police requested for his name, he then tells them that he'd been abducted as well as molested without giving any more details regarding who it was and where did it happen. And then tells them that his real name is Nicholas Mark Randall, who was abducted from a family who'd been reported missing while he was living in Louisiana. And he's first greeted by his older sister who assumed the person she was hugging was really his missing brother. And it was at that point, it's called "The Chameleon" for a reason as we get to witness the affect his return has on this particular family of nobody's with Famke Janson as police investigator, Jennifer Johnson having her doubts about who he is he really. After the film is over, the movie left with many unanswered questions filling the void by using many over abundance crying heartaches and arguing. You can tell a movie is bad is when viewers are able to use a fast forward button on some of the scenes while playing, and still be able to tell what's going on.
It says right at the beginning that it's based on a true story, but when you watch it, it's just as tediously pointless despite showing some well known actors. It opens the movie in France, with a police car stopping on the middle of a freeway, after seeing a young man encroached naked while on the middle of the road. And after the police requested for his name, he then tells them that he'd been abducted as well as molested without giving any more details regarding who it was and where did it happen. And then tells them that his real name is Nicholas Mark Randall, who was abducted from a family who'd been reported missing while he was living in Louisiana. And he's first greeted by his older sister who assumed the person she was hugging was really his missing brother. And it was at that point, it's called "The Chameleon" for a reason as we get to witness the affect his return has on this particular family of nobody's with Famke Janson as police investigator, Jennifer Johnson having her doubts about who he is he really. After the film is over, the movie left with many unanswered questions filling the void by using many over abundance crying heartaches and arguing. You can tell a movie is bad is when viewers are able to use a fast forward button on some of the scenes while playing, and still be able to tell what's going on.
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- Хамелеон
- Filming locations
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA(Grocery store)
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- Gross worldwide
- $141,816
- Runtime1 hour 46 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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