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While I'm not big on talky pixs which are little more than filmed plays,this was a fairly interesting take on one of the more distasteful White House scandals in the last 20 or so years.
For those of you above such shallow stories we are referring to the Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts ) affair and its NOT sexual,it's far more insidious.Ms Plame is the wife of former Ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn ) whose identity as a covert CIA agent was released to discredit her husbands claim that the White House lied about certain intel leading to the invasion or Iraq.While the whole story may never truly be known and I'm surprised the real Wilson's are still alive,it makes for a VERY interesting spin on what MAY have happened. Good acting and a topical story makes for a better film that all the print stories about the affair.Released in 2010 and running 108 minutes,I took 1 and 1/2 stars off because it is so talky and we will never really know how true the back story really is.Trailer URL follows the pix and a IMDB summary below
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWzhwRJbcJY
For those of you above such shallow stories we are referring to the Valerie Plame (Naomi Watts ) affair and its NOT sexual,it's far more insidious.Ms Plame is the wife of former Ambassador Joe Wilson (Sean Penn ) whose identity as a covert CIA agent was released to discredit her husbands claim that the White House lied about certain intel leading to the invasion or Iraq.While the whole story may never truly be known and I'm surprised the real Wilson's are still alive,it makes for a VERY interesting spin on what MAY have happened. Good acting and a topical story makes for a better film that all the print stories about the affair.Released in 2010 and running 108 minutes,I took 1 and 1/2 stars off because it is so talky and we will never really know how true the back story really is.Trailer URL follows the pix and a IMDB summary below
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
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