"Scratches the surface of a deep and dark universe of things we're not supposed to know but should." -Boston Globe. She risked everything to stop an unjust war. Her government called her a traitor. Based on world-shaking true events, Official Secrets tells the gripping story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist whose job involves routine handling of classified information. One day in 2003, in the lead up to the Iraq War, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the U.S. is enlisting Britain's help in collecting compromising information on U.N. Security Council members in order to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press. So begins an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm, expose a vast political conspiracy, and put Gun and her family directly in harm's way.
"Like the whistleblower at its center, 'Official Secrets' has backbone and conviction, something we could use more of today." -Detroit News
"Bloody hell, the Brits do low-key, paranoid procedural dramas like Official Secrets well, with a pervading chill and no flash: The crispness cuts like a knife." -New York Magazine
"The film's honesty about the enormous personal costs of whistleblowing is a welcome relief from more romanticized heroics." -Washington Post
"Knightley gives one of her strongest performances here, using her innate steeliness and presence to create a convincing portrait of a courageous zealot who believes in right and wrong in an almost biblical sense." -Los Angeles Times
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