Shattered Glass PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 24, 2004
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Zahn & Hank Azaria | |
Performer: | Jamie Elman, Rosario Dawson & Melanie Lynskey | |
Directed by | Billy Ray | |
Screenwriting by | Billy Ray | |
Composition by | Mychael Danna | |
Produced by | Craig Baumgarten, Gaye Hirsh, Adam J. Merims & Tove Christensen | |
Director of Photography: | Mandy Walker | |
Executive Production by | Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner, Michael Paseornek, Marc Butan & Tom Ortenberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
It's intriguing stuff that's heightened by the efforts of a seriously impressive supporting cast...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 4/4 --
Using unexpectedly suspenseful character drama, "Shattered Glass" elevates itself to the upper echelon of journalism films. Unless there's ever a 24 famous enough to warrant biopic treatment, this will likely be Christensen's only great performance.
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The Film Yap
Rating: 2.5/4 --
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.
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Globe and Mail
Being a film about fibs, it is desperate not to tell any. Big mistake.
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London Evening Standard
Rating: 4/5 --
A sober, wry and often riveting account of an infamous moment in journalism.
Orlando Sentinel
Just as I was starting to wonder not only if I did really like Steve that much but also if it were possible that I was not even meant to, a story of his is challenged.
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The Spectator
Lacks the journalistic killer instinct that could have elevated it above the well-executed but slightly sanctimonious, made-for-TV feel
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Times (UK)
Description by OLDIES.com:
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.
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- Sales Rank: 132,134
- UPC: 031398117049
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