As an investigative drama, Shattered Glass doesn't break any new ground, but it smashes a lot of illusions.
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.
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
Reviews for Shattered Glass
Who knew that a story about a journalist faking his articles could evoke the suspense of a Hitchcock thriller?
The pacing is great, the script is witty, and the acting is rock solid.
One of the better biopics to be released in the last couple of years.
A compellingly competent telling of the scandalous fall from grace of New Republic staff writer Stephen Glass.
A lean, suspenseful film that plays like the inverse of All the President's Men on a smaller scale.
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