SHATTERED GLASS (2003)

MOVIE REVIEW

Written and directed by: Billy Ray

CAST

-       Hayden Christensen as Stephen Glass

-       Peter Sarsgaard as Chuck Lane

-       Chloe Sevigny as Caitlin Avey

-       Melanie Lynskey as Amy Brand

-       Steve Zahn as Adam Penenberg

-       Hank Azania as Michael Kelly

-       Rosario Dawson as Andie Fox

-       Luke Kirby as Rob Gruen

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 True story of 24 year old Stephen Glass an up and coming journalistic star who was a young writer and editor at the New Republic fabricates more than a dozen articles in the journal opinion. He amuses and impresses his fellow staff by psychopathic-ally forming fiction about stories that are non-existent as he skillfully covers his tracks.

 Stephen Glass can be described as a better actor than most whilst taking the role of a whizz kid with a bashful narcissism. During the movie there is a fascinating sequence whereby Chuck Lane played by (Peter Sarsgaard) tries to pin down the slippery details of Glass’s stories. Phone numbers go missing, files are left at home.

 Phone calls aren’t answered and as it becomes obvious to Lane that the story will not hold water a kind of a dread approaches. There is a few times when Lane seemed to have Glass pinned down and it is quite evident that Glass is trapped but it all seems futile as Glass squirm’s free with a brilliant improvisation. Glass abuses the trust and goodwill of those around him as he also triggers a sense of competitiveness among fellow staff , well it can be said with no doubt that a good thing doesn’t last too long as it doesn’t take time for Glass to be exposed as he pinned and fired by Lane.

Drama,history, Indie

Rated PG 13 for language, sexual references

94 minutes