She ends up seducing and sleeping with The Ghost, drinks, and is something of a mysterious character whose motivations are veiled for most of the film. OLIVIA WILLIAMS plays his wife and advisor who isn't happy in that marriage, especially of recent.Although never proven, it's implied he's having or had an affair with his personal assistant. PIERCE BROSNAN plays the former British Prime Minister who's now found himself steeped in controversy over his former handling of terror suspects as well as his related close ties to the U.S.He drinks, uses profanity, and ends up sleeping with Ruth. As he begins the job, he also starts to piece together what happened to the previous ghost writer and thus progressively worries about his own safety. Initially reluctant to take the job, he ends up ever deeply mired in his client's life, especially when controversy erupts. EWAN McGREGOR plays a scribe who's hired, on short notice, to ghost write Lang's autobiography and thus take up where his recently deceased predecessor left off.WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13 For language, brief nudity/sexuality, some violence and a drug reference. WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT? Unless they're fans of someone in the cast or the works of director Roman Polanski, it doesn't seem too likely. Ruled as a drunken accident off a ferry, the incident raises the Ghost's suspicions as clues and other info - such as the previous ghost writer's contact not only with Rycart but also Professor Paul Emmett (TOM WILKINSON) who knew the Langs back in their school days - come to light.Īs the Ghost continues to dig deeper, he soon realizes that isn't making certain parties happy and thus he begins to worry about his safety, all as the heat continues to be turned up on Lang. Yet, as he works on that, he also starts to investigate the recent death of his immediate predecessor. That only makes the pending autobiography even more anticipated, and the Ghost's deadline is moved up two weeks to get it to market faster. She isn't particularly happy with his behavior of recent, and that's exacerbated when he returns to the compound only to hear that Robert Rycart (ROBERT PUGH), one of his former cabinet members that he fired, is now alleging he broke international law by ordering the illegal transfer of suspected terrorists to American officials. There, he meets Lang's staff, including his personal assistant, Amelia Bly (KIM CATTRALL), who's overly protective of the manuscript, and bodyguard Barry (TIM FARADAY) who's assigned to protect Lang's wife, Ruth (OLIVIA WILLIAMS). Approved by the politico's lawyer, Sidney Kroll (TIMOTHY HUTTON), and given just one month to complete the work by publishing head John Maddox (JAMES BELUSHI), the Ghost travels from Britain to Lang's American compound on Martha's Vineyard.
PLOT: A scribe known only as the Ghost (EWAN McGREGOR) has just taken a replacement assignment to complete the ghost writing of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang's (PIERCE BROSNAN) autobiography. QUICK TAKE: Drama/Suspense: A scribe finds his assignment of ghost-writing the autobiography for the former Prime Minister of Britain complicated by various developments as well as growing concern that his writing predecessor's recent death might not have been an accident.
(2010) (Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan) (PG-13)
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