In Washington, D.C., a female reporter faces a possible jail sentence for outing a CIA agent and refusing to reveal her source.
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Thinking Pulitzer Prize and hoping to bring down a President, D.C. political columnist Rachel Armstrong writes that the President ignored the findings of a covert CIA operative when ordering air strikes against Venezuela. Rachel names the agent, Erica Van Doren, a woman whose young daughter is in Rachel's son's class at school. The government moves quickly to force Rachel to name her source. She's jailed for contempt when she refuses. She won't change her mind, and the days add up. Chaos descends on Van Doren's life as well. First Amendment versus national security, marriage and motherhood versus separation. What's the value of a principle? Written by <[email protected]>
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24 March 2011 (Israel) See more »Also Known As:
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Los Angeles National Cemetery - 950 S Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, California, USA See more »Box Office
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$11,500,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$3,045 (USA) (19 December 2008)Gross:
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Rachel Armstrong: You're not supposed to have to put up with bullies, either.
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According to Roger Ebert, Matt Dillon said that he played his role as if he were the good guy rather than the antagonist. See more »Goofs
When Rachel is beaten up in jail, she gets serious scars on her lower lip and her right eye. In a later scene, the scars are completely gone. In later subsequent scenes, the scars are back, and seen to be gradually healing. See more »Quotes
Timmy Armstrong: You're not supposed to tattle.Rachel Armstrong: You're not supposed to have to put up with bullies, either.
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The journalist, Rachel Armstrong (played well by Kate Beckinsale) refuses to reveal her source of information as to who blew the cover of the CIA undercover agent, who happens to be another woman, Erica (Vera Farmiga). Sticking to her ethics of not revealing the source, she is made to pay the price: imprisonment, separation from her family, the CIA operative named is killed, her own husband looking the other way, not being even able to see her own beloved son. In short, her whole life just crumbles!
It is only at the end of the movie, one comes to know the original source of her story: the small daughter of the CIA operative herself! It is amazing to see how people are willing to put everything to risk to stand by the truth. Rachel could very well have revealed the name of the little girl and perhaps nothing much would have happened. Yet she chooses not to for she had to keep her own word.
What's engaging of this movie is that everyone in it is right! There is nobody who is the 'evil guy'. Each one is doing what he or she is supposed to do! Patton, (played by Matt Dillon with amazing detachment) the prosecutor is trying to get the culprit who let out the identity of the undercover CIA operative and in doing so risked national security. The judge acts in the interests of the country and according to the law. Erica, just wants to know who betrayed her identity. Rachel too is keen on standing by the truth and not giving into any pressure, personal or public, so as to reveal the identity of her source. Only that everything that is true need not be right.
Long live the truth... and long live those who uphold it... at such great a sacrifice.