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Fair Game

Fair Game

Summit Entertainment (Dec 10, 2010)
Blu-ray
PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
025192096990
Biography | Drama | Family | Secret Agent | Thriller
USA | English | Color | 01:48

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. Written by anonymous




In the run-up to the Iraq War, Valerie Plame, a supervisor of covert operations at the CIA, is assigned to determine if Saddam has nuclear weapons. In secret, she interviews scientists inside Iraq and suggests that her husband go to Niger to investigate a report from the Vice President's office that Iraq bought enriched uranium there. When the country goes to war, in part based on the President's claim that the sale took place, Plame's husband, Joe Wilson, writes in the New York Times that the report is false. The White House smears the couple to change the subject. Her career ruined, his credibility under attack, their marriage starts to crack. Can they find trust and fight back? Written by





SYNOPSIS

Valerie Plame is employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, a fact known outside the agency to no one except her husband and parents. She is an agent involved in a number of sensitive and sometimes dangerous covert operations overseas.

Her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, is a diplomat who most recently has served as a U.S. ambassador to Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe. Due to his extensive background, Wilson is approached by Plame's CIA colleagues to travel to Niger and glean information as to whether yellowcake uranium is being procured by Iraq for use in the construction of nuclear weasons. Wilson determines to his own satisfaction that it is not.

After military action is taken by George W. Bush, who justifies it in a 2003 State of the Union address by alluding to the uranium's use in building weapons of mass destruction, Wilson submits an op-ed piece to the New York Times claiming these reports to be categorically untrue.

Plame's status as a CIA agent is subsequently revealed in the media, the leak possibly coming from White House officials including the Vice President's chief of staff and national security adviser, Scooter Libby, in part to discredit her husband's allegation that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq. As a result, Plame is instantly dismissed from the agency, leaving several of her delicate operations in limbo and creating a rift in her marriage.

Plame leaves her husband, further angered by his granting of television and print interviews, which expose them both to public condemnation and death threats. Wilson ultimately persuades her, however, that there is no other way to fight a power as great as that of the White House for citizens like them. Plame returns to him and testifies before a Congressional committee, while Libby is convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice and given a 30-month prison sentence, although President Bush commutes the jail time on Libby's behalf.


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Naomi Watts Valerie Plame
Sonya Davison Chanel Suit
Vanessa Chong Tabir Secretary #1
Anand Tiwari Hafiz
Stephanie Chai Tabir Secretary #2
Sean Penn Joe Wilson
Ty Burrell Fred
Jessica Hecht Sue
Norbert Leo Butz Steve
Rebecca Rigg Lisa
Brooke Smith Diana
Tom McCarthy Jeff
Ashley Gerasimovich Samantha Wilson
Quinn Broggy Trevor Wilson
Nicholas Sadler CIA Tour Leader
Michael Kelly Jack
Noah Emmerich Bill
Iris Bahr CPD Agent
Ghazil Minister of Mines - Niger
Kristoffer Ryan Winters Joe Turner
Louis Ozawa Changchien Nervous Analyst #1
Sean Mahon CIA Analyst #1
Mohamed Abdel Fatah Professor Badawi
Rashmi Rao Kim
David Andrews Scooter Libby

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Edition details

Nr Discs 1
Screen Ratios Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Distributor Summit Entertainment
Edition Release Date Mar 29, 2011
Regions Region A

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