When the ghost writer for an ex-Prime Minister dies, Ewan McGregor is brought in to finish the job. The Prime Minister is being investigated for war crimes, and Ewan starts to realise that his back story doesn’t make sense. Soon he begins to unravel a plot involving the PM, an American arms companies and the CIA. The cardinal rule of ghost writing is not to get involved with your subject, but Ewan can’t stop himself. He writes the PM’s official statement denying the war crimes and even ends up bedding the PM’s wife. The longer he stays and the more he looks into it, the more he starts to think that maybe his predecessor didn’t just drown by accident…

Gripping stuff! I know that the PM is a fairly transparent version of Tony Blair, and there was a sequence featuring a BMW Tom Tom which felt a bit like an extended car ad, but this was a fun film! I hadn’t read the book so had no idea what was going to happen.Lots of tension, good acting (apart from Kim Cattrall who was AWFUL), and a very twisty ending. A good film for watching on DVD on a big screen when it is pouring with rain outside.