Star Movies To Premiere 'Shattered Glass' On 17 Th November

Star Movies To Premiere 'Shattered Glass' On 17 Th November

MUMBAI: Don't believe everything you read... Read between the lies! This Friday, watch the exclusive premiere of a thought-provoking thriller about honesty and integrity in news reporting. Watch Shattered Glass, which is a story of a very talented and at the same time very, flawed character.

It is also a look inside one of the noblest professions, one that protects our most precious freedoms by revealing the truth, and what happens when our trust in that profession is called int question. Tune in to the exclusiv premiere this Friday night, November 17th at 9 p.m. only on Star Movies.

This film tells the true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at "The New Republic" for three years (1995-1998), where 27 of his 41 published stories were either partially or completely made up. Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September, 1998 Vanity Fair article upon which "Shattered Glass" is based - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.

Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down...