Fair Game DVD

Product Description Plame's status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq. .com The skullduggery surrounding the Valerie Plame affair is already the stuff of an espionage thriller, even if at the time of the making of Fair Game many details of the incident remained murky. Naomi Watts plays Plame, a longtime CIA agent whose classified status was exposed to the world by columnist Robert Novak in 2003. The move was widely seen as retaliation for the fact that Plame's husband, diplomat Joseph Wilson (Sean Penn), had just written an op-ed piece contradicting an assertion in President Bush's State of the Union address--an assertion that was part of the Bush administration's drum-beating enthusiasm for the Iraq War. The movie can't answer all the questions about who wanted Plame exposed, but at the least it could create a convincing piece of Beltway intrigue. Instead, Fair Game steers in the direction of domestic melodrama, as the marriage between Plame and Wilson is severely tested by the unwanted notoriety. It's not that the actors are unable to bring this situation to life; Penn is forceful (and

Key details: Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No | MPAA rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned) | Product Dimensions: 0.6 x 5.3 x 7.5 inches; 0.8 ounces | Director: Doug Liman | Media Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen | Run time: 1 hour and 48 minutes | Release date: March 29, 2011 | Actors: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Sonya Davison | Subtitles: : Spanish | Studio: Liosngate Pictures Entertainment

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Review snippets: Fair Game With the exception of Watergate, I can't remember another movie that shows the corruption that abounds within the highest-of-the-high executive offices of our government. This is the story of how a CIA agent was outed and her husband's / Naomi Watts and Sean Penn are excellent in this film as they play Valerie Plame and her husband Joe Wilson. The subject that almost breaks up their marriage is whether Valerie sent Joe to Niger to prove the Bush Adminstration

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