The Ghost Writer (2010)

Directed by Roman Polański · Thriller, Mystery

Starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Jon Bernthal, Kim Cattrall, Tom Wilkinson, Olivia Williams, Timothy Hutton, James Belushi, Nyasha Hatendi, Tim Preece, Michael S. Ruscheinsky, Eben Young, Jaymes Butler, Robert Seeliger, Anna Botting, Marianne Graffam, Daphne Alexander, Angelique Fernandez, Milton Welsh, Alister Mazzotti, Eli Wallach, Tim Faraday, Kate Copeland, Soogi Kang, Robert Pugh, Jeff Burrell, Morgane Polanski, Glenn Conroy, Clayton Nemrow, Errol Trotman-Harewood, Talin Lopez, Joel Kirby, Regine Hentschel, David Rintoul

IHBM8.75Excellent

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. In director Roman Polanski's tense drama, the author realizes that his discovery threatens some very powerful people who will do anything to ensure that certain episodes from Lang's past remain buried.

My review · Reviewed 08/28/2010

Putting aside my feelings of Roman Polanski for a moment, if I am being honest with myself I have to say that I really enjoyed this film. The dialogue and story were fantastic and the acting was excellent. I thought that the ending was a little weak - I really expected the type of ending that happened in The Firm. I guess the book ended that way but for some reason Polanski went a different way. The notable exception to all of this was the casting of Kim Cattrall. In some scenes she didn't even attempt an English accents but in other scenes she seemed to be doing a parody accent. Thirty years later she's still getting run because of Porkys - that's amazing.

underrated