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The Ghost Writer

Movie
2010
2h 8m
PG-13
English
Thriller, Mystery
User Score: 
7
Critic Score: 
81
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A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
The Ghost Writer Poster

The Ghost Writer

PG-13
Movie
2010
2h 8m
English
Thriller, Mystery
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident.
Rating
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The Ghost Writer (2010) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
81

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Ewan McGregor
The Ghost
Kim Cattrall
Amelia Bly
Tom Wilkinson
Paul Emmett
Timothy Hutton
Sidney Kroll
Jon Bernthal
Rick Ricardelli
Robert Pugh
Richard Rycart
Jim Belushi
John Maddox
Anna Botting
SKY TV newsreader
Milton Welsh
Taxi Driver
Alister Mazzotti
Protection Officer Nº1
John Keogh
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HansPeter Sussner
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Stuart Austen
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Morgane Polanski
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Directed By: Roman Polanski
Written By: Roman Polanski (Screenplay), Robert Harris (Screenplay), + 1 more

Featured Comments/Tips

chazTV says...
8 years ago
Pleasantly surprised. Reminded me of something Hitchcock, the way it gradually builds up suspense to tell an engaging story.
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christopher_brink says...
12 years ago
Transparent and predictable. McGregor, Brosnan, and Williams deliver fine performances, but I have no idea what Kim Cattrall was doing here. No one, however, can overcome the problem script.
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Jordyep says...
2 years ago
A modern update of a classic Hitchcock type film. It’s very meticulously edited and directed, and I like how every character is ever so slightly offbeat, it makes the film that much more mysterious. There’s a great sense of place and atmosphere, which is often heightened by the score. In fact, I think it’d make a great double feature with _Shutter Island_ just based on the vibe alone. The mystery is intriguing and tense, but also predictable and obvious at times. Moreover, it gets increasingly schlockier and far fetched as it goes along, so much so that it was asking me to take leaps I didn’t want to take as a viewer. Some of the pay-offs are very silly and unsatisfying. It’s also generally just too conventional of a story, it’d probably be more memorable if it had a stronger subtext, because as it stands it’s nothing more than a mediocre crowdpleaser. 5/10
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kanda92 says...
2 years ago
Good acting and tone, but the mystery was just not so much interesting.
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Featured User Reviews

CinemaSerf
2 months ago
It's quite difficult to watch this in the UK and not draw parallels with a certain real former Prime Minister - especially given the way "Lang" is rather chummily played by Pierce Brosnan. He is trying to have his memoirs written, and after an accident robs him of the incumbent, his team alight on a More
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Renovatio
6 years ago
Such an eerie and haunting movie… I expected just another political thriller, but this is so much more interesting…

The remote setting, the media storm… the layered motivations of the characters, sexual, financial, political etc…

It was also great to see cinematography that wasn’t ju More
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