Mesmerizing and provocative, CON MAN explores the life of James Arthur Hogue, a man who assumed a series of fictional identities and successfully conned his way into Princeton University.

CON MAN begins with Hogue's arrest on the Princeton campus, then traces his life backwards to Palo Alto, where he posed as a high school student while in his mid-Twenties, and finally to his working-class beginnings in Kansas City.

Filmmaker Jesse Moss interviews his close friends, college roommate, prison cellmate, and Hogue himself, who speaks on camera for the first time ever.

CON MAN is an intimate profile of an elusive impostor who tried to outrun his past in pursuit of his own dark version of the American Dream.

A former policy aide and speech-writer on Capitol Hill, Jesse Moss is the founder of Mile End Films, a New York-based film and television production company. Most recently, Moss produced and directed Rated R: Republicans in Hollywood, a documentary about the growing conservative movement in Hollywood for American Movie Classics. Moss also produced and directed Speedo: A Demolition Derby Love Story, about demolition derby champion Ed "Speedo" Jager. Moss is currently developing a fiction version of the film with Warner Brothers.