The Ghost Writer
(2010)
★ 6.8 IMDb · 2,514 votes
Year: 2010
Runtime: 128 мин
Country: France, Germany
Director: Роман Полански
Cast: Юэн Макгрегор, Пирс Броснан, Ким Кэттролл, Оливия Уильямс, Том Уилкинсон, Тимоти Хаттон, Джон Бернтал, Tim Preece, Robert Pugh, David Rintoul
Plot
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.
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.