Roman Polanski's new film may be the closest Tony Blair will ever get to a Hollywood makeover. The hero of "The Ghost Writer", which opens in America this month and in Britain as "The Ghost" in April, is Adam Lang (Pierce Brosnan), a retired British prime minister who is hiding out on an island that looks an awful lot like Martha's Vineyard. He is meant to be keeping busy writing his memoirs in an imposing glass-and-steel house lent to him by his American publisher. The village that fills up during the tourist season is deserted, and bleak skies alternate with drizzling rain. All we see of America is Lang's compound and its lurking security guards. Mr Polanski has made it look like a prison.
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