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Hubris is at the heart of this true story about a high-flying young magazine journalist whose stellar scoops turn out to be figments of his imagination. Hayden Christensen is excellent as a wheedling star reporter who masterfully manipulates his colleagues into helping him with his writing and defending him against his unpopular but rigorous editor, played with equal skill by Peter Sarsgaard. Debut director Billy Ray keeps the office-bound story rattling along like a good magazine article — appropriately enough since the director adapted it from a piece in Vanity Fair — and support is uniformly good, particularly from Steve Zahn and Hank Azaria. If there is a flaw, it's the screenplay's failure to provide any real explanation for Glass's motives, but with all the protagonists alive and no doubt armed with lawyers, perhaps that's not so surprising. AS
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Running time
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89min
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Country of origin
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US / Can
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Genre
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Drama based on a true story
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Original language
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English
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Screenplay
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Billy Ray, from the Vanity Fair article by Buzz Bissinger
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UK cinema certificate
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12A
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UK cinema release date
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May 2004
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UK video release date
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October 2004
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| Golden Globe 2003 |
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role Motion Picture |
Peter Sarsgaard |
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