Fair Game (DVD)

Fair Game (2010) starring Naomi Watts, Sean Penn. Based on Valerie Plame Wilson's memoir, this is an engrossing movie describing events leading up to the Iraq War. Plame Wilson (Watts) was a CIA operative who found evidence that Saddam had no program to produce weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Her husband, Joseph Wilson (Penn), wrote an op-ed column accusing the Bush administration of misleading the public to justify the invasion of Iraq; as a result, Plame Wilson's status as a covert agent was leaked to the press by administration officials. Eventually, the scandal led to the conviction of Lewis "Scooter" Libby. I found it all very interesting and involving. One problem -- when someone talks a foreign language, the subtitles are tiny and very hard to read. Also, the subtitles for the hearing impaired are only adequate. Closed captions are not available. Grade: A-