The Ghost Writer - 2010

Actress Olivia Williams delivers an amazing performance here. A classic, suspenseful story directed by Roman Polanski. The Ghost Writer (released as The Ghost in the United Kingdom) is a 2010 political thriller. The film is an adaptation of the Robert Harris novel, The Ghost, with the screenplay written by Polanski and Harris.  It stars Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall and Olivia Williams.

When a successful British ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) agrees to complete the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), his agent, Rick Ricardelli (Jon Bernthal), assures him it is the opportunity of a lifetime. But the project seems doomed from the start, not least because his predecessor on the project, Mike McAra, Lang's long-term aide, died in an apparent accident.

The ghostwriter flies out to work on the project, in the middle of winter, at an oceanfront house in the fictional American village of Old Haven (an allusion to Vineyard Haven) on Martha's Vineyard. But the day he arrives, a former British foreign minister named Richard Rycart (Robert Pugh) accuses Lang of authorizing the illegal seizure of suspected terrorists and handing them over for torture by the CIA, a possible war crime. Lang faces the threat of prosecution by the International Criminal Court, unless he stays in the U.S. or goes to another country that does not recognize the court's jurisdiction.