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The Chameleon is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean-Paul Salomé released in USA on 8 july 2011 with Marc-André Grondin
The Chameleon (2010)
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Add to a movie listThe Chameleon is a 2010 film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and co-written with Natalie Carter. The screenplay is based upon the true story of Frédéric Bourdin who impersonated a missing child named Nicholas Barclay in San Antonio, Texas, in the 1990s. Much of the true story was incorporated into the film although the years have been altered and the location was moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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A young man (Marc-André Grondin) in Spain shaves off all his body hair and turns himself in to the police. The man claims to be a 16-year-old boy from Louisiana named Nicholas Mark Randall, who had been missing for four years. His story is that he was kidnapped by a child prostitution ring in France who physically altered his appearance, including changing his eye color.Actors
Marc-André Grondin
(Frédéric Fortin / Nicholas Mark Randall)
Famke Janssen
(Jennifer Johnson)
Ellen Barkin
(Kimberly Miller)
Emilie de Ravin
(Kathy Jansen)
Tory Kittles
(Dan Price)
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