The Ghost Writer (2010)


Pierce Brosnan          Adam Lang
Ewan McGregor           The Ghost
Kim Cattrall            Amelia Bly
Olivia Williams         Ruth Lang
Timothy Hutton          Sidney Kroll
Tom Wilkinson           Paul Emmett
Robert Pugh             Richard Rycart
James Belushi           John Maddox
Eli Wallach             Old Man
Jon Bernthal            Rick Ricardelli
Tim Preece              Roy

Directed by:            Roman Polanski
Produced by:            Henning Molfenter, Robert Benmussa, Alain Sarde


When a successful British ghostwriter, The Ghost, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British 
Prime Minister Adam Lang, his agent assures him it's the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project 
seems doomed from the start--not least because his predecessor on the project, Lang's long-term aide, 
died in an unfortunate accident. The Ghost flies out to work on the project, in the middle of winter, 
to an oceanfront house on an island off the U.S. Eastern seaboard. But the day after he arrives, a 
former British cabinet minister accuses Lang of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected 
terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA -- a war crime. The controversy brings 
reporters and protesters swarming to the island mansion where Lang is staying with his wife, Ruth, 
and his personal assistant and mistress, Amelia. As The Ghost works, he begins to uncover clues 
suggesting his predecessor may have stumbled on a dark secret linking Lang to the CIA -- and that 
somehow this information is hidden in the manuscript he left behind. Was Lang in the service of the 
American intelligence agency while he was prime minister? And was The Ghost's predecessor murdered 
because of the appalling truth he uncovered?

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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 has retired with his wife 
to 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.