Fair Game

2010 "Wife. Mother. Spy."
6.8| 1h48m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 20 May 2010 Released
Producted By: Weed Road Pictures
Country: United States of America
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Wife and mother Valerie Plame has a double life as a CIA operative, hiding her vocation from family and friends. Her husband, Joseph Wilson, writes a controversial article in The New York Times, refuting stories about the sale of enriched uranium to Iraq, Then Valerie's secret work and identity is leaked to the press. With her cover blown and other people endangered, Valerie's career and personal life begin to unravel.

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Drama, Thriller

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Director

Doug Liman

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Weed Road Pictures

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Fair Game Audience Reviews

Steineded How sad is this?
MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting
Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.
Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
generationofswine This movie is what Oliver Stone's "W." should have been. That is to say that it holds the Bush administration accountable. And it should be.The fact is that our invasion of Iraq was held under false pretenses and the fact is that the Bush Administration attacked any Americans that disagreed with it. There was even a bill that never passed the House, was never voted on, that would have made anyone that disagreed with the Bush Administration a domestic terrorist.Those are just facts. If you disagree with it for some sake of partisan loyalty, just look at the Dixie Chicks. All they said was that they wished Bush wasn't from Texas and look how badly they went after them.Look at the amount of openly anti-war Democrats in congress that found their way onto the no fly list.It's just a shame more people don't go to see movies like this. It should make you angry.The facts don't have to be 100%, this is a Hollywood movie, not a documentary, but it's not one that doesn't have a valid meaning behind it.So valid that it makes a great companion piece for "Good Night and Good Luck." It's that whole doomed to repeat it thing.The fact is, we live in extreme times. We live in times when people are extreme and they attack anyone that disagrees with them. It is still happening.We are still getting called "unPatriotic" and "unAmerican," for simply not agreeing with the far right. Just like we were when that junior senator from Wisconsin of all places was doing his level best to assure that anyone that wasn't militantly on the right was black listed.The same happened under Bush and "Fair Game" is a wonderful illustration of the levels extremists will go to, to undermine anyone that doesn't lockstep with their beliefs.Welcome to the new America, same as the old America.
paul2001sw-1 Could a government be so-shortsightedly stupid as to out one of its own special agents as a punishment for her husband offering them some advice they didn't want to hear? Apparently so, when the government was the G.W. Bush administration, and what was at stake was the justification of a war in Iraq that the government had already decided to undertake regardless. That story is told in this film; but the movie is limited, because almost inevitably, it paints Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame as heroic, truth-telling victims - which may be true, but the scope for real drama is limited. At times in the story, when events are putting a strain on their marriage, the couple seem to be fighting over the principle of their two different visions of the noblest way to respond to the crisis they've been plunged into. The greatest tragedy, the betrayal of Plame's agents in the field, is relatively underplayed in this Washington-centred story. Sean Penn as Wilson (Plame's husband) plays his role as a self-righteous prig (in a way that I don't think is intended); Naomi Watts seems too super-cool as Plame to be believable, until the film cuts to actual footage of the real Plame giving testimony before Congress, and the likeness turns out to be exact. The film's worth watching if you want to learn the details of the scandal (and you should); but it's something less than Shakespearian in the telling.
rowmorg It's a great thriller, reality based, with fine performances from Penn and Watts, but the latest news now makes this picture seem dated and somewhat superficial. The State Dept translator turned whistle-blower, Sibel Edmonds, alleges that the Turkish ambassador (and corrupt official) Marc Grossman in 1997 revealed to the Turkish American Association that Valerie Plame's front company was CIA backed and to have nothing to do with it. In other words, he "outed" Plame and all the other agents who used that front. The company was immediately wound up. It has also been revealed that Grossman was a personal friend of Plame & Wilson, and that the pair met each other during a meeting of the suspicious Turkish American Association, which is a front for Turkish police and criminals to do deals with Americans. This really widens and deepens the Plame story, raising several urgent questions, and bringing into question the actions of the special prosecutor who found nobody guilty in the Plame outing. This film is therefore highly provocative, if for reasons it did not suspect. Needless to say, all Plame's subsequent efforts to get justice have been turned down flat by both the Bush and Obama justice departments. She now is writing a series of "thrillers", the first emerging last week, entitled Blowback.
Tomus7 It seems to me that they had to fill the first half of the movie with a bunch of Plume's CIA operations - though these really had little to do with the Plume affair and were probably made mostly up - because the Plume affair itself didn't have enough meat/drama to make a movie from. Or maybe it did - they rather rushed through most of the later stuff.On the other hand, I appreciated that they reminded the viewer of the affairs' core issue in the scene near the end in which Plume's husband is talking to students and points out that they all know his wife's name at the expense of knowing the key sentence of Bush's speech. It was a bit heavy handed but it drove home the movies' point quite well.