| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ewan McGregor | ... | The Ghost | |
| Jon Bernthal | ... | Rick Ricardelli | |
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Tim Preece | ... | Roy |
| Jim Belushi | ... | John Maddox (as James Belushi) | |
| Timothy Hutton | ... | Sidney Kroll | |
| Anna Botting | ... | SKY TV Newsreader | |
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Yvonne Tomlinson | ... | Stewardess |
| Milton Welsh | ... | Taxi Driver | |
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Alister Mazzotti | ... | Protection Officer #1 |
| Tim Faraday | ... | Barry | |
| Kim Cattrall | ... | Amelia Bly | |
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Kate Copeland | ... | Alice |
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Soogi Kang | ... | Dep |
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Lee Hong Thay | ... | Duc |
| Olivia Williams | ... | Ruth Lang | |
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 is campaigning for his foundation with his wife in 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>
This is a connoisseur's movie. It needs to be consumed slowly and deliberately to truly enjoy everything that has gone into it. Watch it carefully, there is a lot going on under the surface.
Yes, it's a thriller, and as such parts of it are fast paced, but what it does so well is to misdirect your attention for a while before snapping you back to focus.
There are no wasted words, nor gratuitous scenes in this movie. Just like a Hitchcock movie, the scenes are all necessary, even if they are symbolic.
The acting is first rate, and I say that because much of the tension in the movie comes from the way the characters act, not special effects, not plot points hammered in over and over again.
It is a very dark movie, and the darkness is nicely set off by humor and sarcasm in a few spots.