Shattered Glass

~He'd do anything to get a great story.

Overview

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.

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General Information

Release Date: 2003-11-14
Budget: $6000000
Revenue: $2944752
Runtime: 94 min

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