Shattered Glass
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National Society of Film Critics Awards, Las Palmas Film Festival |  |
"Although this is a journalism movie, it carries the wide appeal of a modern-day morality play." -- Arizona Republic
The true story of Stephen Glass (Hayden Christiansen), an up-and-coming journalist who quickly became one of the most well-known writers in the field. He rose to a staff writing position for the renowned New Republic magazine and had several articles in other publications. The only problem? It was discovered that over half of his stories were fictionalized in some way, resulting in one of the most controversial scandals in the history of modern journalism.
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Shattered Glass is a 2003 American 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's journalistic career at The New Republic during the mid-1990s and his steep fall when his widespread journalistic fraud was exposed. The film is based on real events and also captures the high-pressure world of national political journalism.
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