Shattered Glass

Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected – current events and policy magazine – The New Republic, and a freelance feature writer for Rolling Stone Magazine and others. By the mid-90s, Glass’ articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington D.C., but a bizarre chain of events suddenly stopped his careers path. Nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards and a Golden Globe., Drama based on the true story of a promising young journalist who is disgraced after being caught fabricating articles. As an ambitious reporter at The New Republic magazine, Stephen Glass wins praise for his high-profile political scoops. But when the magazine’s editor – Glass’s mentor – is fired, his work and his methods come under much closer scrutiny., Hayden Christensen puts down his light saber to deliver a fine performance in this engrossing, fact-based tale of journalist Stephen Glass, whose up-and-coming career came to a screeching halt when it was discovered that he fabricated stories. Peter Sarsgaard, Chloe Sevigny, Rosario Dawson, Hank Azaria., Before Jayson Blair made headlines for his plagiarized New York Times reporting, Stephen Glass defamed the weekly current events magazine The New Republic with a series of eye-catching, entertaining, and completely fabricated stories. Now Glass’ trail of lies gets the big-screen treatment in writer/director Billy Ray’s Shattered Glass, featuring Hayden Christensen in the title role. The film chronicles Glass’ time at the magazine in the late ’90s, when his colorful coverage of a hedonistic Young Republican convention, superstar web hackers, and the circus surrounding the Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky scandal made him the toast of the publishing world, garnering attention from such national publications as George and Rolling Stone. Barely out of college, the eager Glass ingratiates himself with the office staff, including his mentor, managing editor Michael Kelly (Hank Azaria). But when Kelly is unceremoniously fired and replaced with editor Chuck Lane (Peter Sarsgaard), Glass’ pieces come under a greater degree of scrutiny, until one in particular threatens to expose his tall tales to the rest of the world. Based in part on a Vanity Fair article by journalist Buzz Bissinger, Shattered Glass premiered at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals before its limited fall theatrical release.