Nothing but the truth (2008) movie

While doing my nails at the nail parlor yesterday, I watched Nothing but the truth playing on the salon's lcd tv.

The plot summary and comments on the movie can be found here.

I didn't recognise the lead actress as Kate Becksingale though - I thought it might be Jennifer Garner - both actresses are dark-haired, dark-eyed and are equally thin.

The Slog Reviews: 7.5/10. The main theme of the movie appears to be whether national security is a good enough reason for the justice system to imprison journalists who refuse to reveal their sources. Other themes explored include how far a person would go to uphold his/her principles, especially a mother who would have to go to jail and be seperated from her child. The CIA agent whose identity the journalist revealed was killed and I think that was the reason the journalist continued to refuse to reveal the source - the source was the CIA's agent own child. Being a mother herself, she would not want the CIA's agent child to live with the guilt that she caused her own mother's death. Other themes explored were sacrifice and the consequences of choices. While she was in jail for almost a year, the journalists's husband had another woman. When the journalist begged him to tell her that the woman was nothing more than just an affair, that he didn't love the other woman, he remained silent. The ending of the movie? The journalist had to go to prison for 2 years for obstruction of justice.

An interesting fact that I learnt from the movie is the difference between jail and prison. Jail is where you go to await your sentence and prison is where you are sent to after the sentence is passed.