A landmark look at race and class, Wendell B. Harris's Chameleon Street is a can't-miss experience, especially in this new restoration!
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, Chameleon Street tells the next-to-impossible-to-believe true story of Douglas Street, a Michigan con man who managed to pass himself off as a Time magazine reporter, a Yale student, a surgeon, and a corporate lawyer before the law caught up with him. Writer-director Wendell B. Harris also starred in this hilarious and insightful look at how one African American man repeatedly transformed himself to navigate a white America. (94 mins., 4K)
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Newly restored by Arbelos Films in 4K from the original camera negative under the supervision of Wendell B. Harris, Jr.
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