Fair Game is a 2010 biographical film drama directed by Doug Liman and starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. It is based on Valerie Plame's memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. and Joseph C. Wilson's memoir "The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir". Naomi Watts stars as Plame and Sean Penn as her husband, Joseph C. Wilson. It was released in 2010 and was one of the official selections competing for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. The film won the "Freedom of Expression Award"... from the National Board of Review. Valerie Plame is employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, a fact known outside the agency to no one except her husband and parents. She is an agent involved in a number of sensitive and sometimes dangerous covert operations overseas. Her husband, Joseph C. Wilson, is a diplomat who most recently has served as the U.S. ambassador to Gabon.
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| Release date: | May 20, 2010 |
| Directed by: | Doug Liman |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 108 Minutes |
| Producer: | Jerry Zucker, Akiva Goldsman, Jez Butterworth, Doug Liman, Janet Zucker, William Pohlad |
| Editor: | Christopher Tellefsen |
| Music by: | John Powell |
| Cinematography: | Doug Liman |
| Screenplay by: | John-Henry Butterworth, Jez Butterworth |
| Estimated budget: | $22,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House |
| Genre: | Thriller, Biography, Action |