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Release Date
• USA: Oct 31, 2003
• UK: 14 May 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: Mar 23, 2004
• R2: 4 Oct 2004
Budget $6,000,000
Official Website:
Shattered Glass Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for language, sexual references and brief drug use.
Running Time
1 hour, 39 minutes
Country USA, Canada
Studio Baumgarten Merims Productions, C/W Productions, Cruise, Forest Park Pictures, Wagner
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama, School / Campus, True Story, Political, Investigation
Tagline: Read between the lies.
Plot: 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 the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September, 1998 Vanity Fair article upon which "Shattered Glass" is based - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks. "Shattered Glass" is a study of a very talented - and at the same time very flawed - character. It is also a look inside our culture's noblest profession, one that protects our most precious freedoms by revealing the truth, and what happens when our trust in that profession is called into question."Shattered Glass" is jointly produced by Cruise / Wagner Productions and Baumgarten Merims in association with Forest Park Pictures. The film's executive producers are Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner of Cruise / Wagner as well as Lions Gate executives Michael Paseornek, Marc Butan and Tom Ortenberg. "Shattered Glass" is being produced by Craig Baumgarten, Adam Merims, Gaye Hirsch and Tove Christensen. A Lions Gate production, "Shattered Glass" will be
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While the storytelling relies a little too much on some clichéd devices, Shattered Glass is a fascinating, well-acted movie about relevant issues that features some very compelling characters. It's worth seeing.  --Leigh Johnson (Hollywood.com)
In this nicely understated docu-drama, Hayden Christensen stars as the man who taught American journalism to read between the lies.  --Jamie Russell (BBC Films)
Part gripping office drama, part psychological thriller, this is an impressively acted, stylishly directed film - easily one of the ten best of the year.  --Matthew Turner (ViewLondon)
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Hayden Christensen
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