Fair Game PG-13
Wife. Mother. Spy.
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 29, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Summit Inc/Lionsgate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Bruce McGill, Michael Kelly, Naomi Watts, Sean Penn & Ty Burrell | |
Performer: | Norbert Leo Butz | |
Directed by | Doug Liman | |
Screenwriting by | John-Henry Butterworth & Tom Butterworth | |
Screenplay by | Jez Butterworth & John-Henry Butterworth | |
Composition by | John Powell | |
Produced by | Jez Butterworth, Akiva Goldsman, Doug Liman, Janet Zucker & Jerry Zucker | |
Director of Photography: | Doug Liman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
Director Doug Liman does a good job of letting the story speak for itself, sparing the audience from too much soap-boxing. Watts and Penn are both solid, although Penn's performance does border on over-the-top in a couple of key scenes.
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Bowling Green Daily News
Watts and Penn bring ferocity and feeling to their roles, turning a potent political thriller into a stirring, relatable human drama.
Rolling Stone
Liman gives the action the you-are-there immediacy that distinguished his earlier tale of international intrigue, THE BOURNE IDENTITY. -- Grade: A-
A.V. Club
Although the outline of this story is well known, Fair Game gives it dramatic shape and teases out the moral problems raised.
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Guardian
[T]he story is both a fascinating sidebar in the history of George W. Bush years and an emblem of what American politics looked like back then.
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
This isn't a message movie, per se, but a strong point of view comes through regardless: In the battle of principles vs. politics, politics always win.
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Toronto Star
Doug Liman's direction is astute, the acting is first-rate, the script -- by Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth -- is smart and the story is an important one...
Wall Street Journal
Product Description:
THE BOURNE IDENTITY director Doug Liman teams with screenwriters Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth to streamline Joseph Wilson's and Valerie Plame's books detailing the explosive outing of undercover CIA agent Plame into a tense docudrama thriller starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. At the time her cover was blown by the George W. Bush administration, Plame (Watts) was combing Iraq for evidence of weapons of mass destruction as part of the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division. Her husband, American diplomat Joe Wilson was attempting to verify a claim that the Iraqis had recently purchased enriched uranium from Niger when the White House began beating the war drums before any solid evidence had been gathered. When Joe penned an editorial in The New York Times decrying the hasty call to war, a prolific Washington, D.C. journalist took the opportunity to reveal Plame's identity as a CIA operative, an act that not only put her career in jeopardy, but also left her various contacts overseas in a precarious position. Years later, a jobless and publicly disgraced Plame wages a vicious fight to clear her name, set the record straight, and keep her family from falling apart.
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- Sales Rank: 44,351
- UPC: 025192096983
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