A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.
Acting
Watts and Penn weaponize decades of mutual history into marital warfare.
Direction
Liman's shaky-cam intimacy makes classified briefings feel like family dinner arguments.
Director
Doug Liman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson cameo as themselves at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner flashback.
This was the first major Hollywood treatment of the Plame affair; The Social War released the same year, making 2010 unexpectedly the golden age of political accountability cinema.
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