This is also the fourth thriller in recent months to make a villain of a corporation obviously modeled on Halliburton. There is also a loud clanging alarm inviting comparison between Polanski's Lang, an exile sought by a court, and Polanski himself. He implies parallels between his story and the Blair and (both) Bush administrations, but uses a light touch and sly footwork so that not every viewer will necessarily connect the dots. The PM's story is based on a best-seller by Robert Harris, who co-wrote the screenplay with Polanski. administration, unnamed, although the Secretary of State looks a whole lot like Condi Rice. It would be unwise for Lang to return to Britain, and he flees to Washington for a photo op with the U.S. Just as his new ghost writer starts work, Lang is accused by his former foreign minister of sanctioning the kidnapping and torture of suspects. Security men lurk about, and a couple of service workers look rather sinister. The wife knows, and isn't above referring to it in front of the Ghost. His aide Amelia ( Kim Cattrall), smart and devious, is having an affair with him. Lang's wife Ruth ( Olivia Williams), smart and bitter, met Lang at Cambridge. Lang has one of those households much beloved by British authors of country house mysteries, in which everyone is a potential suspect - of something, anyway. This is the beach house being used by Adam Lang ( Pierce Brosnan), a former British prime minister so inspired by Tony Blair that he might as well be wearing a nametag.
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