Shattered Glass (film)
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| Directed by | Billy Ray |
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| Written by | Billy Ray |
| Based on | An article by Buzz Bissinger |
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| Narrated by | Hayden Christensen |
| Music by | Mychael Danna |
| Cinematography | Mandy Walker |
| Edited by | Jeffrey Ford |
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| Distributed by | Lionsgate |
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| Language | English |
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $2.9 million |
Shattered Glass is a 2003 American-Canadian drama film written and directed by Billy Ray. The screenplay is based on a September 1998 Vanity Fair article by H. G. Bissinger. In it he chronicled the rapid rise of Stephen Glass' journalistic career at The New Republic during the mid-1990s and his steep fall when his widespread journalistic fraud was exposed.
The film, starring Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny, Hank Azaria, Melanie Lynskey, and Steve Zahn, premiered at the 2003 Toronto International Film Festival on August 10, 2003 before screening at multiple film festivals, ultimately receiving a North American limited release on November 26, 2003. The film, although not a box office success, was well received critically.
Stephen Glass is a reporter at The New Republic, where he has made a name for himself for writing colorful stories. His editor, Michael Kelly, is revered by the magazine's young staff. When David Keene (at the time Chairman of the American Conservative Union) questions Glass' description of minibars and the drunken antics of Young Republicans at a convention, Kelly backs his reporter when Glass admits to one mistake but says the rest is true.
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