This may just be Roman Polanski's masterpiece. This is just as good as Polanski's Oscar winning movie, The Pianist. The Ghost Writer is based on the 2007 Robert Harris bestselling book, The Ghost, Ewan McGregor plays this guy, who is nameless in both the book and movie, they simply refer to him as The Ghost. So, he is hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of the former British Prime Minister Adam Lang(Pierce Brosnan) after Lang's previous ghost writer he mysteriously drowned. The Ghost decides to take the job, he was convinced by his agent that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity. The publisher has sunk $10 million into Lang's memoirs and the deadline is only a month away, he has to work fast. The Ghost is getting paid very well though, for one months work on this, he gets a quarter of a ... |
Rating of 4/4 |