Chameleon Street
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Sunday, November 14, 2021, 2 pm
Hollywood Theatre
Hollywood District (Portland)
This is an in-person event
$7
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, this underrated classic tells the 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. Deemed a "lost masterpiece of Black American cinema" by BFI, the film comes from actor-writer-director Wendell B. Harris Jr.