Shattered Glass (2003)

Director:

Billy Ray

Writers (WGA):

Buzz Bissinger (article)
Billy Ray (written by)

Release Date:

26 December 2003 (Greece)

Genre:

Drama | History

Tagline:

Read between the lies.

Plot:

The true story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was found he had fabricated over half of his articles.

Plot Keywords:

Writer | Journalist | Washington D.C. | The New Republic | Stephen Glass

Awards:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 12 wins & 18 nominations

Cast

Hayden Christensen	...	Stephen Glass
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
Mark Blum	...	Lewis Estridge
Simone-Élise Girard	...	Catarina Bannier
Chad Donella	...	David Bach
Jamie Elman	...	Aaron Bluth
Luke Kirby	...	Rob Gruen
Cas Anvar	...	Kambiz Foroohar
Linda Smith	...	Gloria (as Linda E. Smith)
Ted Kotcheff	...	Marty Peretz
Owen Roth	...	Ian Restil (as Owen Rotharmel)
Bill Rowat	...	George Sims
Michele Scarabelli	...	Ian's Mother
Terry Simpson	...	Joe Hiert
Howard Rosenstein	...	Suit #1
Louis Philippe Dandenault	...	Michael (as Louis-Philippe Dandenault)
Morgan Kelly	...	Joe
Christian Tessier	...	Cade
James Berlingieri	...	Jason
Brett Watson	...	Seth
Andrew Airlie	...	Alec Shumpert
Russell Yuen	...	Emmit Rich
Pierre LeBlanc	...	Monica Merchant #1 (as Pierre Leblanc)
Pauline Little	...	Monica Merchant #2
Kim Taschereau	...	Stout Woman
Phillip Cole	...	Security Guard
Mark Camacho	...	Glass' Lawyer (as Mark Camocho)
Ian Blouin	...	Chuck's Son
Lynne Adams	...	Kelly's Colleague
Caroline Goodall	...	Mrs. Duke
Brittany Drisdelle	...	Megan (as Brittany Drisdell)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Isabelle Champeau	...	Journalist (uncredited)
Sean Cullen	...	Magazine Lawyer (uncredited)
Jeffrey Ford	...	Security Guard (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Billy Ray

Writing credits (WGA)
Buzz Bissinger		(article) (as H.G. Bissinger)
Billy Ray		(written by)

Produced by
Craig Baumgarten	....	producer
Tove Christensen	....	producer
Tom Cruise	....	executive producer
Gaye Hirsch	....	producer
Adam Merims	....	producer
Tom Ortenberg	....	executive producer
Michael Paseornek	....	executive producer
Paula Wagner	....	executive producer
Marc Butan	....	producer (uncredited)

Original Music by
Mychael Danna

Cinematography by
Mandy Walker		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Jeffrey Ford

Casting by
Cassandra Kulukundis

Production Design by
François Séguin

Art Direction by
Pierre Perrault

Set Decoration by
François Sénécal		(decorator) (as François Senecal)

Costume Design by
Renée April

Makeup Department
Annock Bolvin	....	key makeup artist: additional photography
Francine Gagnon	....	key makeup artist
Corald Giroux	....	key hair stylist
Catherine Lahaye	....	makeup artist
Gaétan Landry	....	key hairdresser: additional photography (as Gaetan Landry)
Manon Paquet	....	hairdresser: additional photography
Gérard Royer	....	hair stylist (as Gerard Royer)
Fanny Vachon	....	makeup artist: additional photography
Annabelle MacNeal	....	key makeup artist (uncredited)

Production Management
Maurice Forget	....	unit manager
Stéphane Fréchette	....	unit production manager: additional photography (as Stephane Frechette)
Isabelle Godin	....	assistant unit manager
Jacky Lavoie	....	production manager
Carl Pedregal	....	post-production supervisor: Los Angeles
Philip Stilman	....	post-production supervisor: Toronto (as Phil Stilman)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Richard L. Fox	....	first assistant director
Richard L. Fox	....	first assistant director: additional photography
Michelle Gold	....	second assistant director
Brigitte Goulet	....	second assistant director: additional photography
Roxanna Macedo	....	second second assistant director (as Roxana Macedo)
Natalia Ortelli	....	second second assistant director: additional photography
Natalia Ortelli	....	third assistant director

Art Department
Donald Beaulieu	....	scenic technician
Robert Bourdeau	....	head painter
Cecile Braemer	....	art department coordinator (as Cécile Braemer)
Michel Brochu	....	head carpenter
Real Capuano	....	scenic technician (as Réal Capuano)
Martin Dupré	....	assistant property master
Anne Galéa	....	key set director (as Anne Galea)
Odette Gauvreau	....	head painter
Sébastien Gervais	....	scenic technician
François Gosselin	....	scenic technician
Jean-Pierre Gosselin	....	scenic technician
Erik Guay	....	assistant craft person
Martin Handfield	....	set property master
Manon Lemay	....	assistant decorator
Carl Lessard	....	graphics
Ann Lockell	....	craft person
Denys Marois	....	assistant props: additional photography
Julie-Agnès Morin	....	property buyer
Christian Pierre	....	scenic technician
Guy Pigeon	....	draftsman
Claude Rainville	....	prop master: additional photography
Julie Raymond	....	assistant decorator
Marcel Robidoux	....	assistant craft person: additional photography
Larry Taman	....	art department runner
Mike Vaudrin	....	craft person: additional photography

Sound Department
David Bach	....	supervising sound editor
Catherine Bellazzi	....	boom operator
Pierre Blain	....	production sound mixer
Pierre Blain	....	sound mixer: additional photography
William Clément	....	cable puller: additional photography (as William Clement)
David Esparza	....	supervising effects editor
Marshall Garlington	....	sound re-recording mixer
Aaron Johl	....	sound trainee
Clarissa Keller	....	mix facility coordinator
Shawn Kennelly	....	foley mixer
Laura Macias	....	foley artist (as Lara Macias)
Michael A. Morongell	....	mixing engineer (as Michael Morongell)
Chris Navarro	....	adr recordist
Paul Rodriguez	....	mix facility coordinator
Sean Rowe	....	foley artist
Martin Schloemer	....	mixing recordist
Dan Scolnik	....	foley editor
Eric Thompson	....	adr mixer
Elliot Tyson	....	sound re-recording mixer
David Yonson	....	adr recordist (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Shaina Holmes	....	digital compositor

Stunts
Jere Gillis	....	stunt double: Stephen Glass
Yves Langlois	....	stunt double: Charles Lane
David McKeown	....	stunt coordinator

Camera and Electrical Department
Kelly Baylis	....	grip
Robert B. Baylis	....	key grip (as Bobby Baylis)
Denis Boudreau	....	dolly grip: additional photography
André Bélaieff	....	generator operator (as André Belaieff)
Frédéric Chamberland	....	first assistant camera: additional photography (as Frederic Chamberland)
François Daignault	....	Steadicam operator (as François Daigneault)
Daniel Dallaire	....	electrician (as Dan Dallaire)
Benoit Descary	....	second assistant camera: second camera
Stéphanie Doré-Bertet	....	video assist operator: additional photography (as Stephanie Dore-Berthe)
Jacques Dupuis	....	grip: additional photography
François Dupéré	....	key grip: additional photography (as Francois Dupéré)
Daniel DuSablon	....	grip: additional photography
Jacob Fortier	....	key rigging gaffer
Claude Fortin	....	key rigging grip
Gilbert Gagnon	....	best boy grip: additional photography
Julie Garceau	....	video assist operator
Marie-Pierre Gratton	....	clapper loader (as Marie-Pierra Gratton)
Laurent Alexis Guertin	....	camera loader: additional photography (as Laurent-Alex Guertin)
George Haryszyn	....	generator operator: additional photography
Olivier Hetu	....	electrician: additional photography
Jean Kavanagh	....	second assistant camera
Sylvain Labrecque	....	grip
Christian Lemay	....	first assistant camera: second camera
Jean Levasseur	....	electrician: additional photography
John Lewin	....	gaffer: additional photography
Nicolas Marion	....	first assistant camera
Alain Masse	....	dolly grip
Phedon Papamichael	....	director of photography: additional photography
Guillaume Parisien	....	second assistant camera: additional photography
Dany Prévost	....	extra grip (as Danny Prevost)
Gordon Ramesa	....	grip: additional photography
Louis Richard	....	electrician: additional photography (as Lousi Ruchard)
Claude Sauvageau	....	best boy grip
Jeff Scott	....	best boy: additional photography
Jonathan Wenk	....	still photographer
Francois Archambault	....	Steadicam operator (uncredited)
Frédéric Chamberland	....	Steadicam operator (uncredited)
Eames Gagnon	....	rigging gaffer (uncredited)
John Harris	....	additional rigging electrician (uncredited)
Mathieu Price	....	daily grip (uncredited)
Mark Walpole	....	assistant camera: Washington D.C. (uncredited)

Casting Department
Julie Breton	....	extras casting
Robin D. Cook	....	casting: Toronto
Johnny Gidcomb	....	voice casting (as John Gidcomb)
Lucie Robitaille	....	casting: Montreal
John Barba	....	casting associate (uncredited)
Nicole Hilliard-Forde	....	casting associate: Toronto (uncredited)

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Fabienne April	....	wardrobe coordinator
Sophie Beasse	....	key dresser (as Sophie Béasse)
Marie-Etienne Bessette	....	wardrobe mistress: extras (as Marie-Étienne Bessette)
Sylvie Dagenais	....	assistant key dresser
Louise Eusanio	....	key dresser: extras
Martine Gagnon	....	assistant costume designer
Liane Garneau	....	seamstress
Maory Gastelo	....	assistant wardrobe
Manon Paquet	....	assistant dresser: additional photography
Emilie Perrault	....	key dresser: additional photography
Jean Théberge	....	wardrobe runner

Editorial Department
Jennifer Hwang	....	post-production coordinator
Michel Proulx	....	cutter
Matvey Shatz	....	color timer
Craig Tanner	....	associate editor
Brian Borne	....	colorist (uncredited)
Valerie Laurie	....	post-production facility coordinator (uncredited)

Music Department
Nicholas Dodd	....	conductor
Nicholas Dodd	....	music arranger
Joel C. High	....	music supervisor
Paul Intson	....	music editor
Paul Intson	....	musician: bass
Dan Parr	....	copyist
Lenny Solomon	....	orchestra contractor: Toronto Canada Recording Orchestra
Stephanie Lynn Urcheck	....	music coordinator
Brent Brooks	....	music editor: temp music (uncredited)
Ron Searles	....	music score recording engineer (uncredited)

Transportation Department
Réjean Bouchard	....	driver captain
Owen Coughlan	....	driver
Stephane Desharnais	....	driver: additional photography
Walter Diaz	....	driver
Luc Poirier	....	vehicle coordinator
Charles Prud'homme	....	driver: additional photography
Andrée Roy	....	driver
Patrick St-Pierre	....	driver: additional photography (as Patrick St. Pierre)
Joseph 'Tino' Viscusi	....	transportation coordinator (as Tino Viscusi)
Jerome Wheeler	....	driver

Other crew
Cassandra Barbour	....	rights and clearances: Entertainment Clearances
Olivier Barzic	....	set production assistant
Claude Boissonneault	....	production assistant: additional photography (as Claude Boissonnauilt)
Holly Brace-Lavoie	....	receptionist
Rosana Bruni	....	payroll clerk
Jennifer Bydwell	....	clearance coordinator
Roch Chalifour	....	assistant location manager
Trish Kelly Chornyj	....	production secretary
Etienne Desrosiers	....	location scout
Elizabeth Dixon	....	business & legal affairs coordinator: Lions Gate Entertainment
Yvan Francoeur	....	office runner
Hugues Gaudreault	....	production assistant
Paule Girardin	....	production coordinator
Bob Harris	....	set medic: additional photography
David Hutkin	....	vice president: The Lewis Horwitz Organization
Richard Jordan	....	executive vice president of physical operations: Lions Gate Entertainment
Justin Kelly	....	assistant accountant
Brian M. Kingman	....	insurance: AON/Ruben Winkler Entertainment Insurance Brokers (as Brian Kingman)
Marianne Knai	....	assistant clearance coordinator
Rosemary Lara	....	assistant: Mr. Paseornek
Nicolas Lemieux	....	unit runner
Wayne Levin	....	executive vice president of business affairs: Lions Gate Entertainment
Daniel MacArthur	....	production coordinator: Lions Gate Entertainment
Caroline Maynard	....	set production assistant: additional photography
Stacey McKay	....	production accountant (as Stacy McKay)
Robert M. Melnik	....	senior vice president business affairs: Lions Gate Entertainment (as Robert Melnik)
Curtis A. Miller	....	manager of production: Lions Gate Entertainment
Martin Monette	....	truck production assistant
Anjalika Mathur Nigam	....	assistant: Mr. Merims (as Anjalika Nigam)
Nathalie Picard	....	script supervisor: additional photography
Emily Rice	....	post-production accountant
Bernard Rodrigue	....	location manager
Frédéric Rousseau	....	assistant: Mr. Ray
Tiffany Ryan	....	assistant: Mr. High
Darin Selden	....	attorney for business and legal affairs: Lions Gate Entertainment
Laura Sevier	....	rights and clearances: Entertainment Clearances
Joey Shanley	....	assistant: Ms. Hirsch
Donna Sloan	....	senior vice president of production: Lions Gate Entertainment
Caileen Uznis	....	business & legal affairs coordinator: Lions Gate Entertainment
Catherine Veaux-Logeat	....	script supervisor
Charlyn Ware	....	director of business and legal affairs: Lions Gate Entertainment
Keri Winters	....	insurance: AON/Ruben Winkler Entertainment Insurance Brokers
Pamela B. Green	....	producer: main titles (uncredited)
Michael J. Harker	....	completion bond company representative (uncredited)
Stephanie Lovell	....	set production assistant: Washington, DC (uncredited)
Adriana Poblano	....	travel coordinator (uncredited)

Thanks
Chris Box	....	acknowledged assistance (as Chris Boz)
Danny Bramson	....	acknowledged assistance (as Danny Branson)
Allison Butler	....	acknowledged assistance
David Butow	....	acknowledged assistance: Corbis SABA
Jason Cinkus	....	acknowledged assistance
Anthony Cooper	....	acknowledged assistance: Ecosene/Corbis
David Daniel	....	acknowledged assistance
Mary Evans	....	acknowledged assistance: Esselte Canada
Niki Gascon	....	acknowledged assistance
George Hall	....	acknowledged assistance: Corbis
Hillary Kahn	....	acknowledged assistance
Bruce Kaufman	....	acknowledged assistance
Michael Kelly	....	dedicatee
Pat Kingsley	....	acknowledged assistance
Elliott Kleinberg	....	acknowledged assistance
Joanna Lee	....	acknowledged assistance
Josh Lieberman	....	acknowledged assistance
John McLaughlin	....	special thanks
Wally McNamee	....	acknowledged assistance: Corbis
Andre Morgan	....	acknowledged assistance
Manny Nunez	....	acknowledged assistance
Martin Rogers	....	acknowledged assistance: Corbis
Susan Scott	....	acknowledged assistance
Joseph Sohm	....	acknowledged assistance: Visions of America/Corbis (as Joseph Sohn)
Mirek Towski	....	acknowledged assistance: DMI/TimePix
Pat Woods	....	acknowledged assistance

Production Companies

• Lions Gate Films (presents) (copyright owners)
• Cruise/Wagner Productions (as Cruise/Wagner)
• Baumgarten Merims Productions (as Baumgarten Merims)
• Forest Park Pictures (in association with)

Distributors

• Arti Film (2004) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• GAGA (2004) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Hoyts Distribution (2004) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Humax Pictures (2004) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Medusa Distribuzione (2004) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Artist Film (2005) (Japan) (DVD)
• CP Classics (Russia)
• Columbia TriStar Films de Argentina (2004) (Argentina) (all media)
• Eagle Films (2003) (non-USA) (all media) (Middle East)
• Filmconfect Home Entertainment (2009) (Germany) (DVD)
• H.O.M. Vision (2004) (Netherlands) (DVD) (VHS)
• LK-TEL (2004) (Argentina) (DVD)
• LK-TEL (2004) (Argentina) (VHS)
• LNK Filmes (Portugal)
• Lions Gate Films (2003) (USA) (all media) (as A Lions Gate Entertainment Company)
• Net5 (2008) (Netherlands) (TV) (first national airing)
• Prorom Media-Trade (2003) (Romania) (all media)

Special Effects

• Custom Film Effects (optical and digital effects and titles)

Other Companies

• AON/Ruben-Winkler Entertainment Insurance  insurance provided by (as AON/Ruben Winkler Entertainment Insurance Brokers)
• Bettmann/Corbis  the producers wish to acknowledge the assistance of (as Bettman/Corbus)
• Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC)  with the participation of (as Canadian Film or Video Tax Credit)
• DeLuxe Laboratories  color
• Entertainment Clearances  rights and clearances
• Executive Cutting Service  negative cutting
• Jeremy Walker + Associates  unit publicity
• Kaleidoscope Films Group  title design
• Lewis Horwitz Organization, The  financing arranged and provided by
• Los Angeles Public Library  the producers wish to acknowledge the assistance of
• Major League Baseball Properties  the producers wish to acknowledge the assistance of
• Muse Entertainment Enterprises  production services provided by
• Thrive Records  soundtrack (uncredited)
• Visions of America  the producers wish to acknowledge the assistance of
• Wilshire Stages, The  digital sound recording and re-recording

Also Known As:

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language, sexual references and brief drug use

Runtime:

94 min | Canada:99 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | Australia:89 min

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Finland:S | Norway:A | Philippines:PG-13 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:PG | UK:12A | Canada:PG | Netherlands:AL | France:U | Iceland:L | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39469) | USA:TV-14 (TV rating) | Brazil:14 | Sweden:11 (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

Bethesda, Maryland, USA

Company:

Lions Gate Films

Trivia:

In the 1998 'Vanity Fair' article that inspired the film, Buzz Bissinger wrote that Stephen Glass "established himself as the Darth Vader of Detail" as a fact checker. Hayden Christensen made this film between the two Star Wars films in which he portrays Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader.

Goofs:

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.

Quotes:

Andy Fox:The New Republic, snobbiest rag in the business, the in-flight magazine of Air Force One... and their star goes out and gets completely snowed by a bunch of hackers. I mean, God couldn't have written this any better.

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "Saturday Night Live: Peter Sarsgaard/The Strokes (#31.11)" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Wild Thing

An impressively compelling film

The public-at-large loves a good scandal, and in 1998, the scandal involving Stephen Glass was a pretty darn good one. It turned out that Glass, a young prodigy who was writing for several magazines, but primarily for the prestigious 'New Republic' ('the in-flight magazine of Air Force One') had fabricated some or all of 21 of his 41 well-received stories; a scandal that rocked the journalism world and was picked up by the general public and was later repeated with Jayson Blair.

'Shattered Glass', co-written and directed by Billy Ray examines this true-life story, with Hayden Christensen playing Glass and Peter Sarsgaard as his editor, Chuck Lane. I have never seen Christensen's work in anything else until this point, and I was impressed by his acting chops. He was able to handily express Glass's desperate need for acceptance and his compulsive and repulsively cunning nature so well that the viewer, when faced with the dilemma of how to feel about this man, can only watch numbly as the train wreck that becomes his life careens further out of control. Sarsgaard, as usual, is fantastic as the fair and decent-minded Lane, the editor who first tries to help and protect Glass, but then, after digging deeper, finds that there is a lot more to the man than sloppy journalism.

It is actually surprising to me that 'Shattered Glass' became a film. I remember reading a Vanity Fair piece on Glass back when the scandal broke, and that, and the myriad other articles seemed to be sufficient exposure. The fact that 'Shattered Glass' was released five years after the scandal settled down, and that it is a compelling screenplay and film is a testimony to Ray's (a first time director) talent. 'Shattered Glass' is gut-wrenching in that it is difficult to watch because the viewer knows how deep Glass digs himself, and it's not necessarily fun to watch. 'Shattered Glass' is an intelligent, well-done film and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who appreciates that a film doesn't have to be showy in order to make an impact.

--Shel