RELEASE DATE: 12th August 2010.
- Don't expect to interfere with the CIA and come out alive!
The Ghost Writer is a new film by the notorious director Roman Polanski, whose girlfriend Sharon Tate, was famously killed by the "Manson Family". Unfortunately Roman Polanski is also famous in his own right, not only for Award winning films (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown), but for past misdemeanors (he pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor in 1977) and fortunately this movie was good enough, that my personal feelings about Mr Polanski did not cloud my view of the film.
The Ghost Writer stars Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Tom Wilkinson, Olivia Willliams (who looks remarkably like Australian/Italian actress Greta Scacchi) and a toned down "Samantha" from Sex and the City (Kim Cattrall), playing a modern "M" like character to Pierce Brosnan's, Adam Lang (former British Prime Minister).
The film is suspenseful without trying to have too hard and confusing us with its many last minute twists and turns which many films of late seem to do. The story is about a Ghost Writer (Ewan McGregor) who is sent to the US to finish the memoirs of a past British Prime Minister, Pierce Brosnan. Upon arriving and meeting with the Prime Minister a series of events are reported in the media where the former Prime Minister is accused of assisting in the interrogation and death of terrorists in Afghanistan and is set to be investigated by the War Crimes tribunal.
What seems to be a straight forward turn of events becomes a plot involving betrayal, misguided career aspirations and the CIA. .
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