Shattered Glass

Character : Stephen Glass
Release Date : August - September 2003
Directed By : Billy Ray
Written By : Billy Ray and Buzz Bissinger
Genre : Crime / Drama
MPAA Rating : PG-13
Produced by : Tove Christensen , Tom Cruise and Forest Park Pictures
Distributed by : Lions Gate
Budget : $ 6,000,000
Box Office Opening : $ 77,540
Box Office Total : $ 2,105,024

Cast :
…Peter Sarsgaard ….Charles ‘Chuck’ Lane
…Chloë Sevigny….Caitlin Avey
…Rosario Dawson…Andy Fox
…Melanie Lynskey…Amy Brand
…Hank Azaria…Michael Kelly
…Steve Zahn…Adam Penenberg

Filming Locations:
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Synopsis :

This is based on a true story about Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine “The New Republic” and a freelance feature for “Rolling Stone Magazine”, “Harper’s Bazzar” and “George”. Looking for a short cut to fame,Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down.

Trivia and Facts :
• The end credits attribute a song to The Ramons instead of The Ramones.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Chuck confronts Stephen in his office after realizing that Stephen’s brother was the voice of George Sims. An expletive describing the voice mail was dubbed over to preserve the film’s PG-13 rating.
• When Stephen (Hayden Christensen) and Caitlin (Chloe Sevigny) are talking at the party about Stephen going to law school, you can see her hair is in front of her right ear. In the next shot it’s behind the ear and the following shot it’s back in front of the ear.
• As Michael leaves after being fired and Chuck returns to the office, the clocks in the newsroom read drastically different times in each shot, even going backward through time at one point.
• As Caitlyn types an instant message to let someone know Stephan has been suspended, she makes a sad emoticon. We switch shots to her and then back to the computer and the sad disappears. There is no sound of her hitting the backspace key to erase it, nor does she move the mouse in any way to remove it.

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Quotes
• Stephen-”Are you mad at me”?

• Stephen-”Did I do something Wrong”?

• Stephen-”If I were to throw a party where all we did was play Monopoly would you guys come”?
Caitlin-”Can I be the little shoe”?
Stephen-”Of Course”

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Release Dates
Canada- August 10, 2021 (Toronto Film Festival)
USA- August 30, 2021 (Telluride Film Festival)
USA-September 14, 2003 (Boston Film Festival)
USA-October 03, 2003 (Mill Valley Film Festival)
USA-October 31, 2003 (Los Angeles, California)
USA-October 31, 2003 (New York City, New York)
USA-November 14, 2003 (limited)
Norway-November 23, 2003 (Oslo International Film Festival)
Greece-December 26, 2003
Denmark- January 16, 2022
Australia-February 12, 2004
Hong Kong -March 11, 2004
Finland-March 19, 2004
Brazil-April 09, 2004
Spain-April 23, 2004
Italy- May 07, 2022
UK-May 14, 2004
Poland-May 21, 2004

External Links
…Official Website
…IMDB
…Photo Gallery
…Video Archive