Product Description

Shattered Glass stars Hayden Christensen as Stephen Glass a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone Harper's and George. By theimid-90s Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington but a bizarre chain of events suddenly stops his career in its tracks. Shattered Glass is a study of a very talented and at the same time very flawed character. Stephen Glass was a part of our culture's noblest profession one that protects our most precious freedoms by revealing the truth. Read between the lies.System Requirements: Running Time 94 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 UPC: 031398117049 Manufacturer No: LG1170D

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13444 in DVD
• Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
• Released on: 2004-03-23
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 94 minutes

Amazon.com
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

From The New Yorker
If you are searching for the definitive illustration of a tempest in a teacup, look no further. The writer and director Billy Ray has filmed the story of Stephen Glass, the young reporter who forged facts in a string of pieces that he wrote for The New Republic in the late nineteen-nineties. Glass is expertly played by Hayden Christensen as a puppyish geek, digging himself into ever deeper holes. Glass's editors at the time were Michael Kelly (Hank Azaria), who was fired in the midst of the Glass farrago, and then Chuck Lane (Peter Sarsgaard), who fired Glass himself. Insiders may lap this stuff up, but visitors from the outside world will wonder what the fuss is about, and the movie is scripted, shot, and scored with such undying solemnity that fits of shameful giggles may be heard in cinemas across the land. With Chloë Sevigny, naturally, as one of Glass's fellow-reporters.-A.L. (11/3/03) -Anthony Lane
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

It was all a lie
Mom told us never to lie. This movie shows us why. Not since All The President's Men has there been a movie that showed us the fetid stench of corruption in Washington. Not among its government officials this time, but among the people who inform the public what they're doing. Who's the guilty party now?

Stephen Glass was a rising star at The New Republic magazine in the mid 90s. He wrote funny and clever articles of political satire and events, was earning a six figure salary, and seemed to have it made. One day he wrote an article about a teenage hacker who was offered a position with a company he hacked into, Jukt Microtronics, because it was cheaper for the Jukt to hire him into their payroll rather than sue him for losses. At Forbes Magazine a few weeks later, another reporter was doing a follow up story on this zany adventure when they discovered that none of the people mentioned in the story seemed to exist. Neither did the hacker convention, neither did the corporation, neither did anything. Glass supplied his notes, email addresses, phone numbers, and other things that would allow for the follow up, but they were just lies to cover up the other ones. Soon his other work fell into question. The story about the Monica Lewinsky condoms. The evangelical church that worshiped George Bush Sr. It was all a lie.

Hayden Christensen plays this role quite well, in the fact that he desintegrates into a crying, sniveling little worm desperate to be believed and yet knowing he's been caught. How many others are lying to us? Not just in the field of journalism, but all around us. The best special feature of them all is on this disc, the 60 Minutes Interview with Glass. He explains himself, and we meet his coworkers who had to stand by him as a corporation but watched as they exposed his lies.

The message is NEVER TELL A LIE. It does it with such effortless finess.

Stephen Glass actually did what so many of us only fantasize about.
You know, you could get pretty far in this world if you had no moral compass. Think about it. You could lie your way into new friendships, concocting little scenarios of history where you met people and did things the rest of us only could dream of.

That's just what journalist Stephen Glass did, and did so with incredible success before some wily investigators exposed him for the fraud he truly was. It was in that moment, when the light of truth finally found its way onto the life of Mr. Glass, that he plunged like Icarus from the sky and rose to write again no more (unless you count his floundering personal account of the events as they happened according to him).

Shattered Glass is an amazing story, and what's more, the incredible aspect of it being true, of there actually being a real Stephen Glass out there who created entire worlds of false reality to sell to people as fact. To witness the alluring ways Glass connected with people through the usage of his magnetic charm, wit, and well-polished lies is a thing of frightening beauty. This film serves as a well-made warning to the dangers of taking seriously those things that seem too good too be true.

An Unknown!
Shattered Glass is an excellent movie. Starring Hayden Christensen (Star Wars, Factory Girl, The Unsaid) and Peter Sarsgaard (Jarhead) before they got famous.

It is a true story about a reporter, who simply made up his stories! Its that easy to explain, but makes for a great movie.

I love this movie, highly recommended!