This movie just came out on DVD. I saw it a few weeks ago. VERY GOOD. One of the most interesting stories I've ever seen, and very well told by the filmmaker. He makes interesting choices and they're all good ones.
It's a documentary about a missing kid from Texas. Things take...interesting turns. It is a documentary but it includes recreated scenes, but not typical corny dramatic recreations
The thing that really threw me off is how the mother couldn't recognize that her kid DIDN'T HAVE THE SAME COLOR EYES. He eventually had that bullshit excuse about his torturers trying some experimental shit on him to change it but I think he just told the FBI that part. I mean I can barely buy that she wouldn't recognize this his face is totally different, he's way older than he should be, and he has an accent, but really? You don't notice that his eyes are brown now? Even the PI noticed that right away and he had no relation to him.
That's what makes me think the family had SOME ulterior motive and they didn't totally buy into this guys lies. Maybe not the murder angle necessarily. Maybe it was just their desperation of wanting Nicolas back that they deluded themselves into thinking that he was somehow THIS different. Seems hard to believe though.
That older brother OD'ing right after being interviewed is very fishy though.
My favorite part of the movie is when you quickly start to realize that the family might be hiding something. When the PI talks about that possibly fake call to the police from the older brother awhile ago, and then right after Frederic just flat out states "they killed him.", like he's so sure. My jaw pretty much dropped. I just didn't see it coming at all. I came into the movie thinking that it would be about one thing and it turned into another at that part.
The mother was so fishy in general and so was the older brother dying. Plus the mother lying during the polygraph. The whole thing was so intriguing to me. I just...really wanna know what happened to the kid. I can't believe the story is true
