Shattered Glass (2003)

Taglines:

He'd do anything to get a great story. See more »

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for language, sexual references and brief drug use See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

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Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 December 2003 (Greece) See more »

Also Known As:

A hazugsággyáros See more »

Filming Locations:

Bethesda, Maryland, USA See more »

Budget:

$6,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$77,540 (USA) (2 November 2003) (8 Screens)

Gross:

$2,944,752 (Worldwide)

Production Co:

Lions Gate Films, Cruise/Wagner Productions, Baumgarten Merims Productions See more »

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Runtime:

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

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital  | SDDS  | DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Trivia

Writer/Director Billy Ray first came to this project when HBO, which had optioned a Buzz Bissinger article about the Stephen Glass debacle, hired Ray to adapt the article into a screenplay. While he was writing it, certain HBO executives were fired. By the time he handed in the script, Ray says in an interview, there was a new administration at HBO who "hadn't ordered the script and didn't particularly care about it. So it sat for two years." As he continued writing scripts, he eventually decided "it was time to find out if I was grown up enough to be a director." And he thought that his adaptation of the Bissinger article would be "a good launching point for me because I knew there was nothing in there that was so craft-dependent that my lack of experience was going to hang me." Ray recounts these events in The Dialogue: An Interview with Screenwriter Billy Ray. See more »

Goofs

Revealing mistakes: When Caitlyn types her email about Stephen's suspension, she adds a "sad face" made from a colon and an open parenthesis at the end of the message which appears on the screen. When we see the email again, the "sad face" has disappeared. See more »

Quotes

Chuck Lane: You're fired, Steve.
Stephen Glass: What?
Chuck Lane: You're fired, Steve. You've lost your job.
Stephen Glass: But you can't do that.
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Connections

Referenced in "Gossip Girl: Shattered Bass (#4.21)" (2011) See more »

Soundtracks

"Wild Thing"
(1965)
Written by Chip Taylor
Performed by X. (as X)
Used by permission of EMI Blackwood Music Inc.
Courtesy of Elektra Entertainment Group
By Arrangement with Warner Strategic Marketing See more »