The Ghost Writer

Genre: Thriller

Worldwide gross$60.3M

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.

🏆 34 wins & 57 nominations total

Genres

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director

Roman Polanski

Cast

Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams

Released

19 March 2010

Runtime

2h 8m

Certificate

PG-13

IMDb rating

7.2 / 10

Votes

174,335

Metascore

77

Rotten Tomatoes

84%

Box office

$15,541,549

Budget

$45,000,000

Edition

Base