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Shattered Glass (2003)

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Reviews Counted:158

Fresh:144

Rotten:14

Average Rating:7.7/10

Consensus: A compelling look at Stephen Glass' fall from grace.

Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Shattered Glass stars Hayden Christensen as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such... Shattered Glass stars Hayden Christensen as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September, 1998 Vanity Fair article upon which "Shattered Glass" is based - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks. "Shattered Glass" is a study of a very talented - and at the same time very flawed - character. It is also a look inside our culture's noblest profession, one that protects our most precious freedoms by revealing the truth, and what happens when our trust in that profession is called into question.

"Shattered Glass" is jointly produced by Cruise / Wagner Productions and Baumgarten Merims in association with Forest Park Pictures. The film's executive producers are Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner of Cruise / Wagner as well as Lions Gate executives Michael Paseornek, Marc Butan and Tom Ortenberg. "Shattered Glass" is being produced by Craig Baumgarten, Adam Merims, Gaye Hirsch and Tove Christensen. A Lions Gate production, "Shattered Glass" will be distributed worldwide by the company in 2003. [More]

Starring: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Chloë Sevigny

Starring: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Chloë Sevigny, Melanie Lynskey, Steve Zahn, Rosario Dawson, Jamie Elman

Director: Billy Ray

Director: Billy Ray
Screenwriter: Billy Ray
Producer: Craig Baumgarten, Gaye Hirsh, Adam J. Merims, Tove Christensen
Composer: Mychael Danna
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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Derek Adams

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Mar., 07 2005 03:46 AM

Independent

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Joe Utichi

Shattered Glass is engrossing drama, every bit as entertaining as the story on which it’s based.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Jul., 20 2004 01:49 PM

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Sight and Sound

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Wendy Ide

Lacks the journalistic killer instinct that could have elevated it above the well-executed but slightly sanctimonious, made-for-TV feel

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 13 2004 05:33 AM

Times [UK]

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Matthew Turner

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Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 11 2004 08:17 AM

ViewLondon

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Jamie Russell

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BBC

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4/5

Rich Cline

The complex flashback structure is cleverly and coherently edited to keep us right with Glass through his story

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Dec., 05 2003 04:27 PM

Shadows on the Wall

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Cole Smithey

Journalistic ethics are scrupulously explored in this crystal-clear dramatization of real-life "New Republic" feature writer Stephen Glass's meteoric rise and rapid dissolution over falsified articles he wrote for the publication during the mid '90s as a

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 10 2009 11:14 AM

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

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Blake DePastino

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Marty Mapes

Not a particularly cinematic story, but outstanding performances justify this production

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | Apr., 14 2006 06:43 PM

Movie Habit

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4/5

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6/10

Dragan Antulov

cautionary tale for future generations

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59/100

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Nick Schager

Ray stages the film not as a mystery but as a case study in all-consuming denial and professional and psychological self-destruction.

Full Review Source: | comment Comment | May., 04 2005 09:05 PM

Lessons of Darkness

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Garth Franklin

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