When Trump Makes Your Largely Forgotten Movie Urgent Again
Doug Liman was already reediting <em>Fair Game</em>—his 2010 political drama about the Scooter Libby leak—before the president’s pardon of the former Bush White House official this year.
When hit theaters in October 2010, it made barely a splash and was quickly forgotten. A dramatization of the by Doug Liman, a director best known for action films such as and , the movie debuted at the Cannes Film Festival to but no awards. that Plame (Naomi Watts),a CIA officer whose cover was blown by the White House, was barely a character in the movie. For much of the running time, she has to stoically endure the George W. Bush administration’s efforts to discredit her family, while her husband,
