The Ghost Writer

"Read between the lies."

Mar 19 2010 PG-13 2h 8m
Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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.

Plot

An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for years, Lang is campaigning for his foundation with his wife in the USA. He lives on an island, in luxurious, isolated premises complete with a security detail and a secretarial staff. Soon, Adam Lang gets embroiled in a major scandal with international ramifications that reveals how far he was ready to go in order to nurture UK's "special relationship" with the USA. But before this controversy has started, before even he has closed the deal with the publisher, the ghost-writer gets unmistakable signs that the turgid draft he is tasked to put into shape inexplicably constitutes highly sensitive material.

Written by

Robert Harris, Roman Polanski

Directed by

Roman Polanski

Production Countries

United Kingdom, Germany, France

Production Companies

R.P. Productions, Studio Babelsberg, Runteam, France 2 Cinéma, Summit Entertainment, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, FFA, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, FilmFörderung Hamburg, Mecklenburg Vorpommern, France Télévisions, Panavision, Bogard, 321 Films, R.P. Films, Elfte Babelsberg Film GmbH, Runteam III Ltd., Transpalux, Creative Europe Media Programme Of The European Union

Languages

English

Awards

33 wins & 57 nominations total

Scores
# of Votes
176,290
Average Rating
7.2 out of 10
Metascore
77
Popularity
NA