Fair Game

Indie, True Story
4 stars
Good movie starring Naomi Watts as the spy who was deliberately exposed during the Bush/Cheney administration, for which Scooter Libby took the fall. Sean Penn co-stars as her outspoken husband. I called it a “true story” even though we’ll never really know exactly what was discussed between Cheney, Libby and Carl Rove, but it feels close enough to the mark and more importantly, you see how this spitefulness affected the exposed family’s lives. Unfortunately, this was filmed with shaky, hand-held cameras which I find terribly annoying, but it’s a very good story. Complicated and fast paced, but worth it.