I did like "The Ghost Writer" a lot. Though I kind of wish they'd kept the British title, "The Ghost." I guess they figured people would go in expecting Patrick Swayze.

There are "officially" 3 different cuts of the movie, Margaret


To recount the ins and outs of the legal battles surrounding the film would take all day, but here's the short version. Lonergan (for still unspecified reasons) wasn't able to get a cut under the 150 minute limit he was given on his contract, and he borrowed "several hundred thousand dollars" from close friend Matthew Broderick to keep the editing bay open, and give him more time to cut. “I don’t want to say how much it was,” said. “I just wanted to help him get it done. It wasn’t a carefully thought-out thing. He’s my best friend, and if he’s really stuck, I would always try to help him.”

After much heartache and legal tangles, in 2008 -- three years after the film shot -- Lonergan delivered his cut, which we saw in theaters running exactly 150 minutes, however there were two more versions that were in the mix.

In 2007, financier and producer Gary Gilbert ("Garden State") -- frustrated by the delays -- hired editor Dylan Tichenor ("Brokeback Mountain") to deliver a two hour version known as "the Peggy cut" (named after Gilbert's Peggy Productions).

Legal entanglements held up the release of the film, but in what was hoped could be a compromise between all interested parties, Martin Scorsese (edit: and Thelma S.) was hired to do his own version (he had previously seen Lonergan's 3 hour cut). Waiving his fee, Scorsese snipped the movie into a 160 minute version.

Margaret ... just pick one that doesn't make my bladder explode, and send it to the theaters and shut up about it.

NYC, Paris, and San Francisco, I would say "Yessss!!!!"

I had an absolutely great time in Rome. Like it much better than either London or Barcelona, though it's not up to Paris. Almost nothing is.