The Great Pretender

Starring: Ewan McGregor

Director: Peter Capaldi
Release Date: 2007
Studio: Relativity Media
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Synopsis: The story follows two ambitious producers in the 1930s who hire the hell-raising Hollywood legend Leslie Grangely to play Bonnie Prince Charlie in a movie about Scotland's Jacobite Rebellion in the 18th century. But when Grangely hits the bottle and disappears, they trick an unassuming extra with an uncanny likeness to the star to fill his shoes. McGregor plays Grangely and the extra, as well as the two characters they play in the film-within-a-film -- Bonnie Prince Charlie, dubbed the 'Great Pretender', and the double used by the prince to confuse his enemies.