What makes Shattered Glass of some little interest is that it's not only a psychological portrait but also a relatively detailed picture of the inside of a prestigious American political magazine. There's at least some suggestion of what writing for such a publication is like: the idea sessions, the rough drafts, the hassles over style, the fact checking, the rewrites. There's even a rather far-fetched sequence that shows the publisher's obsession with commas. Other moments depict competition and camaraderie among the young staff writers. You get a taste of the loyalties to fired editors, the pride in working for the magazine, the personal rivalries.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323944/I really enjoyed it - Casting Hank Azaria as yucky the Michael Kelly and portraying him as this nice guy was a little weird.
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