An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for years, Lang has retired with his wife to the USA. He lives on an island, in luxurious, isolated premises complete with a security detail and a secretarial staff. Soon, Adam Lang gets embroiled in a major scandal with international ramifications that reveals how far he was ready to go in order to nurture UK's "special relationship" with the USA. But before this controversy has started, before even he has closed the deal with the publisher, the ghost-writer gets unmistakable signs that the turgid draft he is tasked to put into shape inexplicably constitutes highly sensitive material.
Written by Eduardo Casais <casaise@acm.org>
Errors in geography:
Though the movie is set in Massachusetts, when the ticket agent at the ferry asks The Ghost for his choice of ticket type, she uses the British words "single" and "return" instead of the United States expressions "one-way" and "round-trip".
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Quotes
[first lines]
The Ghost:
You realize I know nothing about politics. Rick Ricardelli:
You voted for him, didn't you? The Ghost:
Adam Lang? Of course I did, everyone voted for him. He wasn't a politician, he was a craze. See more »
Crazy Credits
The credits are written as black-on-white with a typewriter font, like the manuscript shown throughout the movie.
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