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Chameleon Street is a american film of genre Drama directed by Wendell B. Harris, Jr. released in USA on 24 april 1991 with Wendell B. Harris, Jr.
Chameleon Street (1989)
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Add to a movie listChameleon Street is a 1989 independent film written by, directed by and starring Wendell B. Harris, Jr.. It tells the story of a social chameleon who impersonates reporters, doctors and lawyers in order to make money.
The film is a satire based on the life of Detroit con artist and high-school drop-out William Douglas Street, Jr., who successfully impersonated professional reporters, lawyers, athletes, extortionists, and surgeons, going so far as to perform more than 36 successful hysterectomies. A Sundance Film Festival press release in 2008 described it as "one of the first films to examine how mellifluously race, class, and role-playing morph into the social fabric of America." Chameleon Street won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival.
Synopsis
William Douglas Street s'ennuie de sa vie. Travailler pour son père le fatigue, sa femme veut plus d'argent et il en a assez. Sa solution est de se réinventer. Il devient un caméléon, assumant le rôle qui convient à la situation. Du journaliste au médecin en passant par l'avocat, il se fait passer pour tous ceux dont il a besoin et il peut gagner de l'argent se faisant.Actors
Wendell B. Harris, Jr.
(William Douglas Street)
Richard Kiley
Anita Gordon
(Darlene Street, First Wife)
Christopher Williams
(Darren Street, the Brother)
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