Drama, action, modern day political scandal and the price of personal commitment to the truth. This movie deserves the awards and accolades it has received. I watched it recently on an Air Canada flight from LA to Toronto. I love flying because it’s a great time to catch up on movies. It was riveting and highly entertaining.

Academy Award winners Naomi Watts (Valeri Plame) and Sean Penn (Joe Wilson) lead a stellar cast in the dramatic retelling of the Valerie Plume Scandal this gripping true-life story of a CIA Agent who is forced to take on the White House under the Bush Administration. Director Doug Liman (Bourne Identity) brings tremendous story telling to the screen. Based on Plume’s memoir, the movie follows the events prior to the Iraq War that lead up to a journalist’s ‘outing’ of the true identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. The premise of the story is so outrageous in the democratic society we accept as a given in the modern day US that only a very convincing drama could keep us so thoroughly engaged. The movie has won multiple awards including being the official selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2010.

Valerie Plame Wilson is the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson author of The Politics of Truth (2004). Wilson revealed in this memoir and in various other writings and interviews that members of the former President’s Bush Administration exposed his wife Valerie Plame’s covert status as retribution for his op-ed entitled “What I Didn’t Find in Africa” published in the New York Times (July 6, 2003). This article spoke directly of the Bush Administrations’s misleading and misrepresented evidence about a fictitious build up of nuclear weapons by the Iraqi regime. President Bush made this presentation in his State of the Union Address and used the information to launch an all out war on Iraq by the USA.

Winner National Board of Review Freedom of Expression

Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2010

Special Presentation Chicago International Film Festival 2010

Closing Night Presentation AFI DC Labor FilmFest 2010

Winner Favorite US Feature Mill Valley Film Festival 2010

Moira Romano