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Official Secrets When British surveillance employee Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), who works at the Government Communication Headquarters and is married to a Turkish Muslim immigrant cafe owner (Adam Bakri), illegally divulges in 2003 highly classified NSA intel that exposes in an online memo a lie perpetrated by American officials and cooperated by the British government in order to justify going to war with Iraq despite no evidence of weapons of mass destruction thereby endangering the lives of American, British, and Iraqi citizens and then journalist Martin Bright (Matt Smith) made the leak a headline scoop in The Observer in this captivating, factually inspired, well-acted, dialogue-heavy, star-studded (Matthew Goode, Rhys Ifans, Indira Varma, and MyAnna Buring), 112-minute political thriller based on Marcia and Thomas Mitchell's novel "The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War," the courageous whistleblower is arrested and charged with violating the Official Secrets Act and an English barrister (Ralph Fiennes) steps up to represent her.   Redhead: Year: 2019 Rating:  R View Official Secrets on the Internet Movie Database