Official Secrets R
Nothing is more dangerous than the truth
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 52 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 26, 2019
- Originally Released: 2020
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode & Ralph Fiennes | |
| Performer: | Indira Varma, MyAnna Buring, Conleth Hill, Rhys Ifans, Katherine Kelly, Jeremy Northam, Tamsin Greig, Shaun Dooley, Hattie Morahan & Kenneth Cranham | |
| Directed by | Gavin Hood | |
| Screenplay by | Gregory Bernstein, Sara Bernstein & Gavin Hood | |
| Composition by | Mark Kilian & Paul Hepker | |
| Director of Photography: | Florian Hoffmeister |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/5 --
The script, based on a book by Marcia and Thomas Mitchell, keeps layering in complexity, refusing to go dumb. And Knightley's performance gets steelier as she struggles to overcome her fears
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Sydney Morning Herald
It's a lean, taut-as-a-drum political thriller with a blood-boiling theme and a fine cast that includes Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith and Rhys Ifans, among others. But it's built, mostly, around the superbly stricken performance of Knightly.
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Phoenix Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
While it'll do nothing to restore trust in the august bodies that rule the land, it's a pacy, palm-clammying watch.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
With the deeply divisive issue of imminent war at hand, Official Secrets gives the audience a glimpse into the shadowy side of politics and government affairs while allowing Gun's courage to take the spotlight.
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The New Paper (Singapore)
Katherine Gun, the British whistleblower who uncovered U.S. efforts to dirty-trick the U.N. into approving the Iraq War, is an appealing figure whose findings should have been scandalous enough to unseat maybe two governments.
RogerEbert.com
Rating: 3/5 --
Official Secrets offers a relevant and cautious story about the ramifications of going against an institution. [Full Review in Spanish]
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En Filme
Rating: 3/5 --
[Knightley's] smart not to play Gun as the noble martyr, but merely as an ordinary, frustrated citizen who makes a split-second decision.
Independent (UK)
Product Description:
British secret-service officer Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley) risks her life to stop the 2003 invasion of Iraq by becoming a whistleblower. She decides to leak a top-secret memo outlining a plan between the U.S. and U.K. to blackmail smaller swing vote members of the United Nations Security Council into voting for war. Gun finds herself in over her head when the British government comes after her and her Muslim husband (Adam Bakri). Directed by Gavin Hood. Based on the book "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War" by Marcia Mitchell and Thomas Mitchell.
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