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Chameleon Street (1991)

Movie"I Think, Therefore I Scam."
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67
Chameleon Street
R 1 hr 34 minApr 24th, 1991Drama, Comedy
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Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival - yet criminally underseen for over three decades - Chameleon Street recounts the improbable but true story of Michigan con man Douglas Street, the titular “chameleon” who successfully impersonated his way up the socioeconomic ladder by posing as a magazine reporter, an Ivy League student, a respected surgeon, and a corporate lawyer. Elevated by a dexterous performance and versatile direction from multi-hyphenate actor-writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr., the film pins a lens on race, class and performance in American identity, which has lost none of its relevance. At once piercingly funny and aesthetically mischievous, Chameleon Street is a “lost masterpiece of Black American cinema” (BFI) long overdue to take its rightful place in the independent film canon.
StarringWendell B. Harris Jr.Angela LeslieAmina Fakir
DirectorWendell B. Harris Jr.
WriterWendell B. Harris Jr.

Movie Details

On DVD & Blu-ray:December 18th, 2007 - Buy DVD
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Helen Boulware Harris
Production Companies:Gathsemane 84, Prismatic Images, Inc., Films Around The World, Inc.