The Pretender (1996)★ 7.5/10
- Action
- Drama
- Mystery
- Thriller
- Sci-Fi
Directed by: Frederick King Keller, James Whitmore Jr., Terrence O'Hara, Chuck Bowman, Rodney Charters
Written by: Steven Long Mitchell, Craig W. Van Sickle, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Juan Carlos Coto, Tommy Thompson
A specially gifted man, with the ability to instantly master any skill, escapes from a secret testing facility and travels the country taking on different jobs and helping strangers while hiding from his kidnappers.
- Original title
- The Pretender
- Storyline
- Jarod is a pretender, a very intelligent person with the ability to slide into somebody else's personality. For that purpose, he has been taken from his family as a child in order to work for a secret agency called The Centre. But recently, he escaped. Jarod's new mission in life is to help people in need with his gift, and to find out what really happened to his allegedly dead parents. Only, Miss Parker and her team are out to get him...
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 18,113
- Companies
- 20th Century Fox Television, MTM Enterprises, MTM Entertainment, Mitchell/Van Sickle Productions, NBC Studios, 20th Television, Free Dolphin Entertainment, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), New KSM, RTL Klub Televízió, TV 4, Walt Disney Television
- Release dates
- US September 19, 1996
- SE January 9, 1997
- AU February 6, 1997
- DE March 26, 1997
- FR April 4, 1997
- GB June 15, 1997
- EE September 4, 1997
- PT September 19, 1997
- FI September 26, 1997
- HU October 7, 1997
- IL October 29, 1997
- CH December 19, 1997
- IT August 2, 1998
- PL April 5, 2000
- MX March 22, 2005
- SG March 22, 2005
- BR September 13, 2005
- CA May 26, 2009