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Shattered Glass [Region 2] | ![Shattered Glass [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SJCVKCP2L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Billy Ray
Actors: Hayden Christensen, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Peter Sarsgaard, Rosario Dawson
Category: DVD
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Rating:  119 reviews
Sales Rank: 204074
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050070022513
ASIN: B0002ADWZS
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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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
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 Exceptionally interesting June 16, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
The Bottom Line:
An excellent character piece that develops into a slow-burn thriller, Shattered Glass not only features recorded history's sole compelling performance by Hayden Christiansen, but showcases a fine cast of young actors in a fascinating piece of filmmaking that almost never takes a wrong step; even those uninterested in journalism will find much to treasure here.
3.5/4
An eye opener for future journalists! November 23, 2008
R. Boyles (Jonesboro, AR USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A movie people need to watch at least twice to truly grasp the rise and fall of Stephen Glass. At first, I felt Hayden was just a terrible actor portraying Glass, however, after doing some personal research on Glass himself, I found out he is a really dull individual...so Hayden nailed the part. The movie is quite riveting and I have watched it at least ten times since it was purchased last month. It's definitely worth every penny!!
One Of The Best Movies I've Ever Seen. (Spoiler Alert) September 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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 and interesting because of his news articles. Such as the one called "Spring Breakdown" which is mentioned in the movie about a convention for colonists and activists. It seemed like everything was going good for Stephen. He was getting away with most of his articles that he was making. Then came the article "Hack Heaven".
It was based on a hacker that broke into a big company named "Jukt Micronics". Everyone thought that the article was true, but one company started investigating. The company was called Forbes. It was a small internet jounalist site like most other jounalist sites at the time. A guy named Adam Penenberg started investigating about the article Stephen wrote. Turned out that most of what Stephen Glass said was completely false. The only thing that turned out true was that there was a state called Nevada in the whole article.
Forbes called up The New Republic the next day and was all over them about this article. So Stephen started actually preparing for what happened by not only making a fake website. He also made a land line for the company and even made fake and very bad cards for the company. Forbes though still uncovers everything about the story and actually digs Stephen and The New Republic deeper in a whole which seemed impossible. So Chuck Lane decides that to confirm if the story was true that he and Stephen got to the place where the article took place. Turns out that everywhere that they went were either close early to when Stephen Glass said it, or just closed entirely.
So Glass then finally admits to what happened. So Lane either has to fire him or suspend him. He suspends him... for a little while at least. Later that night though a co worker of The New Republic mentions to Lane about his brother who lives at Stanford which actually is how he finds out about who actually called him with George Simms. Lane then goes to the office and immediately fires Glass for lieing about the whole article.
After Glass leaves the big part starts falling through. Lane searches through all of Stephens stories. He finds out that most of his stories are almost if completely false. He forces Glass to leave and then tells a good friend of Stephens and good editor at The New Republic about what happens. All of the New Republic find out about it and eventually give in to Lane and apologize for what happened.
The movie speaks a lot for what happened because for written magazines it was a complete embarrassment for what happened to them. While for the internet jounalism it put them on the main stream because they found out about the article and were the first to pounce on the situation. Big year for both areas of jounalism.
The movie was great. Hayden played extremely well in his role as Stephen, and Peter Sarsgaard was amazing at his role as Chuck Lane in the movie. I think it's a movie worth buying and it's one of the best I've ever seen.
Intense, compelling and heart-breaking August 10, 2008
Mark Allen (Washington, DC)
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 pathological liar, he won my sympathy. The slow, sad unraveling of Stephen Glass' career is treated with gentle decency. In the years since Mr. Glass' transgressions against the truth there have been far more egregious examples of reporters gone wrong. It is doubtful that those who followed in his footsteps deserve the sympathy that Glass does.
As worthy of notice today as it was when the events depicted occured, "Shattered Glass" is a worthy addition to anyone's library.
Amazing MOVIE and AMAZING performances =) August 4, 2008
Always Samsung (New York, NY)
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 feature of the 60 minutes interview with Stephen because the real Stephen Glass was G*Y and very obvious from the interview. I wonder if anyone else picked up on it. I am not going to get into details about the story but will give you a quick recap, as it's a story about a young journalist the youngest on his team fabricating his stories to impress his co-workers. One story in particular which is the last story he wrote for the magazine gains extra attention which is what leads to his downfall.
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