In light of its director’s high-profile September 2009 arrest — and the festering old wounds broken open anew because of it — Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer may be the rare movie in which the name ...

The Ghost Writer (2010) is an American neo-noir political thriller film. The film tells viewers a poignant story of how a ghostwriter is hired by a publishing firm to complete the autobiography of ...

Rated PG-13 for language, brief nudity/sexuality, some violence and a drug reference. Running time: 128 minutes “Ghost Writer” is about a writer in an isolated house trying to work in the face of ...

In many senses, "The Ghost Writer" has been overshadowed by the controversy surrounding its director, Roman Polanski, the notorious filmmaker behind classics like "Chinatown" (1974) and "Rosemary's ...

Summit has picked up North American distribution rights to Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer." By Borys Kit, The Associated Press Summit has picked up North American distribution rights to Roman ...

A killer game of hide and seek.

Roman Polanski's all-too-faithful adaptation of a bestseller is low on sustained tension. Pic’s literalism is also its biggest handicap. Eight years since his last major success, “The Pianist,” the 76 ...

Lou Reed once said his shit was better than other people’s diamonds. So it is with filmmaker Roman Polanski, who brings such a masterly touch to whatever he does that even a low-key thriller like The ...

When a successful British ghostwriter, The Ghost, agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang, his agent assures him it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project ...

Martin Scorsese’s and Roman Polanski’s new movies make for a depressing study in contrasts. Scorsese’s Shutter Island, with its hammy quotations from the history of Expressionist noir, is like ...