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Shattered Glass (2003)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:30
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7.5/10
Consensus: A compelling look at Stephen Glass' fall from grace.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for language, sexual references and brief drug use
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Oct 31, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $2,105,024
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
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Reviews for Shattered Glass
Does a superb job in presenting four of the five journalistic 'Ws' of its story: the who, what, where and when. It fails, however, on the essential 'why' of the tale.
What are we to learn from this? Not the broad lesson that every line of work has its share of charlatans: The script is way too pious to swallow such a generic pill. And not anything important about Glass, since there's no real character examination.
Excels at the kind of straight-ahead storytelling that's both involving and satisfying.
A good movie about a real-life problem journalist that unfortunately has almost nothing to do with journalism's real-life problems.
Not only an honest depiction of one journalist's rampant dishonesty but a compelling movie by just about any standard.
It's funny and gripping, a story about people that also happens to be about journalistic principle.
It's a thoughtful, well-paced look at one pathetic kid's lies, and our equally pathetic willingness to accept them as truth.
A study in moviemaking that doesn't resonate beyond its subject matter.
Here's a verdict that Shattered Glass makes abundantly clear: Hayden Christensen can act.
Although this is a journalism movie, it carries the wide appeal of a modern-day morality play.
It takes craft, insight and expert delivery to make an 'insider' story interesting to those on the outside. And that's exactly what Shattered Glass does.
Hayden Christensen strikes all the right notes as the talented, charming and very cloying Stephen Glass, who made a huge splash at the New Republic magazine in the late 1990s with colorful stories.
An impressively compelling film about disgraced journalist Stephen Glass.
A scarily compelling thriller that puts journalistic ethics on trial.
The movie is smart about journalism because it is smart about offices.
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