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Based on true incidents
”Did I do something wrong?”
Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), a hot young journalist, had amazing articles appear in The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Harper’s, George, and other prestigious publications. In his mid-twenties Glass was making over $100K a year.
His articles generated lots of attention and praise. But Glass was cunning. He wrote one lie after another after another. He fabricated notes, meetings, sources, interviews, and knew how to get his articles approved by the fact checkers.
The web of lies was split apart, card by card, by Adam Penenberg (Steve Zahn), a tech reporter for forbes.com.
Others appearing include Hank Azaria as Michael Kelly, Glass’ first editor at TNR; Peter Sarsgaard as Chuck Lane, a TNR reporter who took Kelly’s place; Chloe Sevigny as Caitlin Avey a fellow TNR reporter and as close to Glass’ girlfriend as he’d allow; Melanie Lynskey as Amy Brand, another TNR reporter; Rosario Dawson as Andy Fox, a reporter for forbes.com; and Ted Kotcheff as the senior editor at TNR.
Written and directed by Billy Ray.
Run time: 1 hour, 39 minutes
Rated PG-13.
My personal rating: B+
Based on true incidents
Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), a hot young journalist, had amazing articles appear in The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Harper’s, George, and other prestigious publications. In his mid-twenties Glass was making over $100K a year.
His articles generated lots of attention and praise. But Glass was cunning. He wrote one lie after another after another. He fabricated notes, meetings, sources, interviews, and knew how to get his articles approved by the fact checkers.
The web of lies was split apart, card by card, by Adam Penenberg (Steve Zahn), a tech reporter for forbes.com.
Others appearing include Hank Azaria as Michael Kelly, Glass’ first editor at TNR; Peter Sarsgaard as Chuck Lane, a TNR reporter who took Kelly’s place; Chloe Sevigny as Caitlin Avey a fellow TNR reporter and as close to Glass’ girlfriend as he’d allow; Melanie Lynskey as Amy Brand, another TNR reporter; Rosario Dawson as Andy Fox, a reporter for forbes.com; and Ted Kotcheff as the senior editor at TNR.
Written and directed by Billy Ray.
Run time: 1 hour, 39 minutes
Rated PG-13.
My personal rating: B+
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