Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.
Acting
Hayden Christensen's sweaty desperation is genuinely hard to watch.
Editing
Tight 94 minutes that never lets you breathe.
Writing
Billy Ray's script makes bureaucracy feel like a thriller.
Director
Billy Ray
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-Elise Girard
Catarina Bannier
Chad Donella
David Bach
Jamie Elman
Aaron Bluth
Luke Kirby
Rob Gruen
Cas Anvar
Kambiz Foroohar
Linda E. Smith
Gloria
Ted Kotcheff
Marty Peretz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Stephen Glass became a lawyer after being banned from journalism; he was denied bar admission in California in part because of his history of dishonesty.
This film hit theaters months before the Jayson Blair scandal at the New York Times, making it weirdly prophetic about journalism's credibility crisis.
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