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27. 'The Ghost Writer'
Nearly lost amid the legal kerfuffle concerning Roman Polanski earlier this year was the fact that the beleaguered director's has created an instant genre classic with this taut political thriller about a writer (Ewan MacGregor) hired to "ghost" the memoirs of a Tony Blair-esque former prime minister (Pierce Brosnan). In his quest to uncover more and more about the PM's shady affairs, MacGregor dives down the proverbial rabbit hole -- and, refreshingly, there are no happy endings here.
Nearly lost amid the legal kerfuffle concerning Roman Polanski earlier this year was the fact that the beleaguered director's has created an instant genre classic with this taut political thriller about a writer (Ewan MacGregor) hired to "ghost" the memoirs of a Tony Blair-esque former prime minister (Pierce Brosnan). In his quest to uncover more and more about the PM's shady affairs, MacGregor dives down the proverbial rabbit hole -- and, refreshingly, there are no happy endings here.
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