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Shattered Glass, 2003
English
USA, Canada
Profile of Shattered Glass
The mood of Shattered Glass is cynical, clever, and captivating. The plot centers around blind ambition, journalism, and media. It is a drama and independent movie. Stylistically, Shattered Glass includes a voice over and is talky. In approach, it is serious and realistic. It happens in the 1990s. Shattered Glass is inspired by an article and originally a true story. The movie is known for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. Note that it includes profanity.
Summary of Shattered Glass
Shattered Glass recounts the rise and fall of Stephen Glass, the real-life journalist who ruined his career by writing fictional articles for The New Republic magazine. The film, set in scandal-frenzied Washington D.C. at the end of the Clinton era, portrays Glass (Hayden Christensen) as a mild-mannered, precocious, and charismatic journalist whose successes quickly accrue. Glass is a darling to the magazine's staff and to the sources who feed his stories. But when Christopher Lane (Peter Sarsgaard), replaces editor Michael Kelly, Glass finds his work under much greater scrutiny. Glass's writing, in fact, has been fishy all along, and he is finally found out by an Internet-based media reporter (Steve Zahn) who does his own fact-checking, introducing the trope of what a good journalist can do. As more of the facts emerge, the film pits integrity, honesty, and trust against Glass and his desire to entertain. The film boasts a number of excellent performances from its youthful cast, and offers poignant commentary on the world of media.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA, Canada |
| Release date: | 30 August 2003 |
| Runtime: | 94 min |
Cast and Crew
as Stephen Glass
as Charles 'Chuck' Lane
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- by: Owen Gleiberman
The New York Times
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- by: Dana Stevens
