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starring: Hayden Christensen, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Peter Sarsgaard, Rosario Dawsondirected by: Billy Ray
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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781594351556
Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC
ISBN: 1594351554
Label: Lions Gate Films
Manufacturer: Lions Gate Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate Films
Release Date: March 23, 2004
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 26382
Studio: Lions Gate Films
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Shattered Glass is the best film about journalism since All the President's Men. If that seems like lofty praise, consider this: In telling the true story of fallen journalist and pathological liar Stephen Glass, writer-director Billy Ray had to thoroughly and believably demonstrate how Glass--played in a pitch-perfect performance by Hayden Christensen--could single-handedly betray the trust of vigilant editors, writers, fact-checkers, and copyeditors while he falsified numerous highly praised articles as a hot, seemingly gifted reporter for The New Republic magazine in the late 1990s. Making an assured directorial debut, Ray brilliantly explores the delicate office politics that allowed for Glass's ongoing deception, which was diligently exposed by a reporter (Steve Zahn) from Forbes Online Tool, thus toppling Glass's tower of lies and setting a noble precedent for online journalism. From Glass's ingratiating psychopathology to the anguish of TNR's then-unpopular editor (Peter Sarsgaard) as he discovers the extent of Glass's wrongdoing, Shattered Glass is a riveting, perfectly cast study of ambition gone sour, countered by the nobility of respectable journalists in the wake of a worst-case scenario. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One Of The Best Movies I've Ever Seen. (Spoiler Alert)
This is proabably one of the best movies I've ever seen in my whole entire life. For those who don't know about the movie it's basically about one of the biggest and most embarrassing scandals on one side of jounalism and an extremely big breakthrough for another.(Big spoiler alert after this point.)
The movie is about a reporter named Stephen Glass who is a guy who usually does stuff like be modest or funny and interesting so his co workers could like him. Most of the time he was funny ... Read More
Rating: - Intense, compelling and heart-breaking
If you have only experienced Hayden Christensen's work in brain-dead blockbusters, be prepared for a surprise. The kid can act.
"Shattered Glass," while far from perfect, is utterly engrossing. Both the heartbreaking exploration of a young journalist's fall from grace and a larger exploration of the definition of honesty, the film maintains suspense throughout.
The cast is uniformly magnificent, but no one shines brighter than Mr. Christensen. Despite playing a socially inept ... Read More
Rating: - Amazing MOVIE and AMAZING performances =)
Amazing MOVIE and AMAZING performances =)
This movie is excellent and for 90 minutes it moves at the perfect pace. The director does an amazing job. This film just pulls you in and you just can't seem to turn away. As much as i wish the film was longer it would probably lose its allure if it was drawn out. The appeal is that the scenes move so fluidly. Everyone's performance in the film is excellent except Hayden. He isn't awful but he is not the scene stealer in the film. I love the special ... Read More
Rating:  - It was all a lie
Mom told us never to lie. This movie shows us why. Not since All The President's Men has there been a movie that showed us the fetid stench of corruption in Washington. Not among its government officials this time, but among the people who inform the public what they're doing. Who's the guilty party now?
Stephen Glass was a rising star at The New Republic magazine in the mid 90s. He wrote funny and clever articles of political satire and events, was earning a six figure salary, and seemed ... Read More
Rating: - Stephen Glass actually did what so many of us only fantasize about.
You know, you could get pretty far in this world if you had no moral compass. Think about it. You could lie your way into new friendships, concocting little scenarios of history where you met people and did things the rest of us only could dream of.
That's just what journalist Stephen Glass did, and did so with incredible success before some wily investigators exposed him for the fraud he truly was. It was in that moment, when the light of truth finally found its way onto the life of Mr. Glass, ... Read More
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