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Fair Game
A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.
2010 · Directed by Doug Liman · 108 min · Drama · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 5 frames
Tagline
Wife. Mother. Spy.
Plot
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 intelligence officer 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 the U.S. ambassador to Gabon. Due to his earlier diplomatic background in Niger, Wilson is approached by Plame's CIA colleagues to travel there and glean information as to whether yellowcake uranium is being procured by Iraq for use in the construction of nuclear weapons. 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.
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Crew
- Screenplay: John-Henry Butterworth, Jez Butterworth
- Cinematography: Doug Liman
- Edited by: Christopher Tellefsen
- Music: John Powell
- Production design: Jess Gonchor
- Produced by: Doug Liman, Bill Pohlad, Janet Zucker, Jez Butterworth
Cast
- Naomi Watts as Valerie Plame
- Sean Penn as Joseph Wilson
- Sam Shepard as Sam Plame
- Noah Emmerich as Bill
- Michael Kelly as Jack
- Bruce McGill as Jim Pavitt
- David Andrews as Scooter Libby
- Tim Griffin as Paul
- Liraz Charhi as Dr. Zahraa
- Khaled El Nabawy as Hammad
Production
- Country: United States of America, United Arab Emirates
- Language: English
- Studios: River Road Entertainment, Participant, Fair Game Productions, Dillywood
- Budget: $22,000,000
- Box office: $25,806,953
- Themes: central intelligence agency (cia), politician, iraq, nuclear scientist, duringcreditsstinger
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