Ghost Writer

A twisty thriller with old-fashioned sensibilities. No knife-wielding psychopaths or torture. It’s about books and writers and spies. It felt very 70’s. Ewan McGregor plays Roman Polanski’s surrogate superbly -- a man under siege by a presumed conspiracy. But that’s where the comparisons to Polanski’s crimes end. McGregor’s anonymous writer is innocent, and stumbles into a situation by accident that becomes more complicated the more he unravels it. Enjoyable and worth seeing.