THE GHOST WRITER Movie Review
THE GHOST WRITER received a lot of attention before it even had a release date, because of writer/director Roman Polanski's arrest back in September 2009. And against the odds, the movie was finally released and so let's talk about it.
In The Ghost Writer, an author (Ewan McGregor) is hired to ghostwrite and complete the autobiography of a controversial former British Prime Minister, Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), when the previous ghostwriter is found dead. The Ghost is sent to live with Adam Lang, his wife (Olivia Williams) and chief of staff (Kim Cattrall) in an East Coast beach house in order to for him to capture the essence of Lang. Soon after, Lang finds himself in the middle of a scandal over his administration's harsh counterterrorism tactics. And as The Ghost digs into Lang's past, it isn't long until he discovers clues of a secret that may be far more shocking [...]



