Staff at The New Republic magazine were mesmerized by their youthful colleague Stephen Glass.

They had no idea how prophetic their observations were when they'd remark that his stories and ideas seemed too good to be true.
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If the curse of Luke Skywalker were to befall Hayden Christensen and he were never heard from again after his next Star Wars film, Shattered Glass would be Exhibit A in making a case for cosmic injustice.

The fact is the kid can act. Certainly he can act much better than is called for in a script by George Lucas. And in this efficiently told tale of Stephen Glass -- the magazine-writer wunderkind who scandalously turned out to have made up his award-winning stories for Rolling Stone and The New Republic -- Christensen hits the most subtle of grace notes portraying a probable sociopath.
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