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Actors: Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Steve Zahn, Hank Azaria
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Shattered Glass |
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In 1998 an idealistic young writer named Steven Glass (Christensen), writing for the influential political monthly magazine The New Republic, authors an investigative story about a computer hacker getting hired to work for a computer software company whose system he violated. When the facts in the article begin to fall apart under intense scrutiny by Adam Penenberg (Zahn) and other journalists for Forbes Digital on-line magazine, Glass fights to save his reputation and his career.
Glass accuses his editor Chuck Lane (Sarsgaard) of not standing behind him as retaliation for his taking sides when former and much beloved editor Michael Kelly (Azaria) is fired. Repeatedly asked by Lane for information and notes to verify his facts, Glass produces phony business cards, non-working phone numbers and out of service websites. Because Glass is so well liked by his fellow staffers at the publication most of them take his side and lobby the editor for leniency for him. This well acted film is the true story of events, but may be less memorable than headlines regarding fabricated newspaper articles written by Jayson Blair at The New York Times a few years later.
--David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Shattered Glass |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- journalist
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- deluded
- emotionally unstable
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- journalist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Southeast
City?
Yes
City:
- Washington D.C.
Misc setting
- school
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
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