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Now a film about Brandon Lee/Brian MacKinnon.
For a whole school year a new boy convinced his Scottish high school classmates and teachers that he was just a regular pupil.
But eventually the teenager who called himself Brandon Lee was exposed as an imposter called Brian MacKinnon, who had left the same school more than a decade earlier.
A new film retells the story of how a 30-year-old man, claiming to be 17-year-old from Canada, enrolled as a fifth year student at Bearsden Academy, near Glasgow, in 1993 and gained five A-grade Highers before his world collapsed. It was a year later, while he was a student at Dundee University's medical school, that his double life was revealed by a newspaper and MacKinnon was thrown off his course. The story gained worldwide attention, with many alarmed at the thought of young girls unconsciously consorting with a man almost twice their age.
The new film was written and directed by Jono McLeod, who was a 16-year-old classmate of Mackinnon - or Brandon, as he still calls him.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-60081503
For a whole school year a new boy convinced his Scottish high school classmates and teachers that he was just a regular pupil.
But eventually the teenager who called himself Brandon Lee was exposed as an imposter called Brian MacKinnon, who had left the same school more than a decade earlier.
A new film retells the story of how a 30-year-old man, claiming to be 17-year-old from Canada, enrolled as a fifth year student at Bearsden Academy, near Glasgow, in 1993 and gained five A-grade Highers before his world collapsed. It was a year later, while he was a student at Dundee University's medical school, that his double life was revealed by a newspaper and MacKinnon was thrown off his course. The story gained worldwide attention, with many alarmed at the thought of young girls unconsciously consorting with a man almost twice their age.
The new film was written and directed by Jono McLeod, who was a 16-year-old classmate of Mackinnon - or Brandon, as he still calls him.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-60081503