Story portrayed as interestingly as possible. Christensen well-cast as someone reprehensible.


He'd do anything to get a great story.
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.
Director: Billy Ray
Writers: Billy Ray, Buzz Bissinger
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Story portrayed as interestingly as possible. Christensen well-cast as someone reprehensible.
Long before Donald Trump became obsessed with fake news, there was Stephen Glass (here played by Hayden Christensen). Here is an ambitious and creative man who successfully manipulated the verification processes at Washington DC's prestigious "New Republic" magazine leading it to…