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This film tells the true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass (Christensen), who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at "The New Republic" for three years (1995-1998), where 27 of his 41 published stories were either partially or completely made up. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down...
Early 1998. Twenty-five year old is the youngest of fifteen writers/editors at The New Republic, a little distributed but highly regarded - especially among those that matter, such as the President - political commentary magazine based in Washington, DC. He is seen as the wunderkind at his high school alma mater, and is well liked and respected among his New Republic colleagues. That view by his colleagues is because he is self-effacing in a lost boy way, helpful, and captivating, yet he manages to be able to be at the right place at the right time to come up with interesting story ideas. He is also hard working, doing his job while just starting law school part-time at Georgetown. The same cannot be said about the magazines current editor-in-chief, , who was promoted after the most recent editor, , was fired by publisher Marty Peretz. Michaels staff respected him because he stood up for them against Marty or whoever else challenged them, whereas Chuck, who was just another staff writer/editor before the promotion, is seen as betraying that loyalty to Michael by accepting the job even before Michael knew he was being let go. As with any non-fiction publication, each story is fact-checked by staff to ensure accuracy to prevent liable. However, Stephens latest printed story begins to be questioned by journalists at Forbes online magazine, as they wished they had discovered the story, wanted to do a followup piece, but found that many of the items listed in the story could not be verified independently of the materials Stephen had given to the New Republics fact-checkers. This work by Forbes begins an even trickier relationship between Chuck and Stephen, the latter who staunchly defends his written piece, being able eventually to back-up his sources with albeit questionable "proof". Chuck, on the other hand, has to decide how far he will go to protect Stephen, his writer, especially as Stephen gets caught in one lie after another, about which he is able to get away with solely in his self-effacing apologetic manner which got him the support of his colleagues to begin with.
Hayden Christensen
Stephen Glass
Chloë Sevigny
Caitlin Avey
Steve Zahn
Adam Penenberg
Peter Sarsgaard
Charles 'Chuck' Lane
Rosario Dawson
Andy Fox
Melanie Lynskey
Amy Brand
Hank Azaria
Michael Kelly
Mark Blum
Lewis Estridge
Simone-Élise Girard
Catarina Bannier
Chad Donella
David Bach
Jamie Elman
Aaron Bluth
Luke Kirby
Rob Gruen
Cas Anvar
Kambiz Foroohar
Linda E. Smith
Gloria
Ted Kotcheff
Marty Peretz
Owen Roth
Ian Restil
Bill Rowat
George Sims
Michele Scarabelli
Ian's Mother
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