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: 4/5 --
A sober, wry and often riveting account of an infamous moment in journalism.
Orlando Sentinel
Rating: A- --
Journalistic ethics are scrupulously explored in this crystal-clear dramatization of real-life "New Republic" feature writer Stephen Glass's meteoric rise and rapid dissolution over falsified articles he wrote for the publication during the mid '90s as a
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ColeSmithey.com
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)
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
Writer-director Ray has a no-fuss style that is quietly, thoroughly gripping.
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Newsweek
Rating: 3/5 --
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.
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Toronto Star
Rating: A --
Perhaps the best exploration of American journalism this past decade has seen.
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Bangor Daily News (Maine)
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: 132,079
- UPC: 031398117049
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