Shattered Glass (2003)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Best movie of this year hands down!

it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Coming in at a mere 93 minutes, this hidden little gem of a movie seems to take a bit longer to watch, but for all the right reasons. Watching a young, bright, but terribly flawed young man commit slow-motion career suicide that both betrays his friends and endangers their own reputations and livelihood is indeed uncomfortable, but is also what makes this film mesmerizing knowing that it is mostly real.Hayden Christensen's portrayal of Stephen Glass is that of a rather pathetic character whose willingness to not only deceive his readers and colleagues in pursuit of instant fame but also to continue to dig his professional grave ever deeper rather than cop to his fraud. Christensen's performance is convincing and workmanlike but not particularly memorable.The performance that IS memorable - so much that his character becomes the moral center of the film and steals the show - is that by Peter Sarsgaard of editor Charles Lane. Anyone who has been unwillingly thrust into a seemingly premature promotion under unfavorable circumstances (in this case replacing a much-loved editor who's been fired for sticking up for his writers) can immediately appreciate Lane's discomfort. That discomfort, expertly exuded by Sarsgaard, becomes interlaced with panic and eventually anger as he slowly realizes the magnitude of Glass' fraud and his ever-more-desperate attempts to maintain it. While his anger grows, so does his confidence in his own abilities, which is demonstrated with expert subtlety.The film's ability to end on an upbeat note, as the writing staff finally comes to appreciate Lane's predicament and concern for their feelings and reputations, both of which have been damaged by the colleague they've wrongfully defended most of the film, is welcome.The only criticism of this film is that it never really explains what was unique about Glass that made him fabricate stories, sources, and characters on such a scale. Most professional writers seek the approval of their peers, readers, and editors and the success that comes with getting great stories printed, but don't normally go to Glass' lengths to reach those goals. What drove Glass to go in such a misguided direction is never laid out.

Well this ended up being pretty good. It started out weak, kinda dry, a little dull but developed into an engrossing and surprisingly suspenseful story. Its based on a real guy, Stephen Glass who was a young reporter for the "New Republic magazine" in the 1990's and whose up and coming career came to a screeching halt when it was discovered that he had fabricated many of his stories.Hayden Christensen plays Glass and I thought he did a great job; his character is annoying, whiny, simpering and constantly craving praise while preying on the good nature and sympathy of others. Not very likable. When he gets caught out (by Steve Zahn & Rosario Dawson) watching him try to cover his tracks regarding fact checking, sources and phone #'s was fascinating, at times so uncomfortable it made me squirm.Peter Sarsgaard plays his editor, put in a tough spot because he wants to believe Glass and knows a sh!t storm is coming if indeed he has fabricated his stories, eventually though the chain of events can't be ignored.There are some weird moments when Glass is fantasizing, so its kind of confusing as to what's real. I guess this is to show how much he believed his own lies. I was surprised by how much sympathy I felt for him in the end, his character is heartbreaking, so messed up. 1/5/15

The movie Shattered Glass was actually really good I like the movie because it explains how he was such a good writer that he was able to fool so many people with his stories because he had such a fun and real explanation and evidence behind it and nobody really ever questioned him about his articles because he was the only one ever there. When the other magazine seen his article immediately they started to question it and looking up many things about the Hack Heaven article they looked deep into they caught him the surprising thing to me is how he was able to lie to the faces of his friends and coworkers and not have a single problem with doing it.He dug himself so deep into the situation he drowned himself with all the lying and all the stories it would have might have been different if it was a few stories he could have salvaged his carrier instead it was basically burned to crisp there was no coming back from what he did. He also screwed himself over for his future because he isn't able to get his lawyer license because he wasn't trusted by anyone so he has screwed himself over for life. Over all I really enjoyed the movie because it showed how things can change very fast on how the mistakes you make in the past can catch up with you which in the end they did which overall screwed him as said before.

Shattered Glass is not one of the best movies, but is a great movie for the people that like read the magazine The New Republic. The history line goes up at the beginning, then stay there, in the investigation of the article "Hack Heaven" and I had the same question all over the movie "how fake was the article?". The best part is the end.It is a movie directed by Billy Ray where we can find good actors such as Hayden Christenses (Stephen Glass), Chloe Sevigny (Caitlin Avey), Steve Zahn (Adam Penenberg) and Peter Sarsgaard (Chuck).The movie is about the true history of Stephen Glass, a young writer from the magazine The New Republic that manipulates the system of writing on the magazines world. He wrote the article "Hackers Heaven" that was really fake and the magazine Forbes find out that was false and then they began investigating it. Almost all the movie is about that but with a great end.The acting is really good, in special Hayden Christenses made a pretty cool invitation of Stephen Glass, you can see it in the interview (included in the DVD) with the original Stephen Glass.