The Ghost Writer (film)

The Ghost Writer released as The Ghost in the United Kingdom and Ireland is a 2010 British political thriller film directed by Roman Polanski. The film is an adaptation of a Robert Harris novel, The Ghost, with the screenplay written by Polanski and Harris. It stars Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall and Olivia Williams.

A British ghostwriter Ewan McGregor is recruited to complete the memoirs of former Prime Minister Adam Lang Pierce Brosnan for the publishing firm Rhinehart, Inc. His predecessor and Langs aide, Michael Mike McAra, has recently died in an apparent drowning accident. The writer travels to the Massachusetts village of Old Haven on Marthas Vineyard, where Lang is staying with his wife, Ruth Olivia Williams, along with his personal assistant and implied mistress, Amelia Bly Kim Cattrall. She forbids him to take McAras manuscript outside, emphasizing that it is a security risk.Shortly after the writers arrival, Lang is accused by former Foreign Secretary Richard Rycart Robert Pugh of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA, a possible war crime. Lang faces prosecution by the International Criminal Court unless he stays in the U.S. or one of the few other countries that does not recognise the courts jurisdiction. While Lang is away in Washington, the writer finds items in McAras room that suggest he might have stumbled across a dark secret, among them an envelope containing photographs and a phone number the writer discovers is Rycarts. ........

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