In 2008, Louis Ortiz, a middle-aged single father from the Bronx, was struggling to make ends meet. Then he walked into a bar, and everything changed. Someone thrust a newspaper into his hands, and there on the front page of the New York Daily News was a man with big ears—a presidential contender—to whom Ortiz bore an uncanny resemblance. At the urging of the bartender, a business-minded one-time movie extra, Ortiz went home and shaved off his goatee. When he looked in the mirror, he no longer saw an unemployed Puerto Rican man—he saw dollar signs. This story of a Barack Obama impersonator’s dogged attempt to cash in on a “look of a lifetime” is at once hilarious and heartfelt. As his identity and values increasingly come under fire by his hard-pushing manager, Ortiz must decide just how much he’s willing to sacrifice to pursue the American Dream.  EM