百年50部英文燒腦電影賞析:[29]Nothing But the Truth 真相至上

Rachel Armstrong（Kate Beckinsale）is an ambitious reporter for the Capital Sun-Times. When she discovers fellow soccer mom Erica Van Doren（Vera Farmiga）is working as a covert operative for the CIA and recently returned from Venezuela, where she was investigating an assassination attempt on the President of the United States, she confronts her and requests confirmation. Erica refuses to cooperate, but Rachel has no doubts about the veracity of the report, and her story becomes front-page news with the support of editor Bonnie Benjamin（Angela Bassett）and Avril Aaronson（Noah Wyle）, who serves as the newspaper's legal counselor. Rachel-Armstrong.
Because revealing a covert operative's identity is a treasonous offence and because the individual who leaked the information to Rachel is a potential threat to national security, special Federal prosecutor Patton Dubois（Matt Dillon）convenes a grand jury and demands to know who her source is, information she refuses to divulge. High profile attorney Albert Burnside（Alan Alda）, hired by the newspaper to defend Rachel, is certain his personal friendship with Judge Hall will facilitate matters and is shocked when his client is jailed for contempt of court.
Days become weeks, and then months, but Rachel steadfastly defends the principle of confidentiality, a position that eventually estranges her husband Ray（David Schwimmer）, alienates her young son Timmy（Preston Bailey）, and costs her embattled newspaper hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines and legal fees. She is stricken when a member of an extremist right-wing group assassinates Van Doren in her own driveway, as he perceives Van Doren's report on Venezuela's innocence to be unpatriotic, but she remains silent. Eventually, the President's Chief of Staff comes forward and admits that he corroborated Armstrong's investigation into Van Doren's identity. However, Dubois is only interested in Armstrong's original source. Armstrong pleas to Dubois that she could never give up her source as they would have to deal with the consequential ramifications of the death of Van Doren. Burnside even argues her case before the Supreme Court, but they decide against him 5-4, citing the overriding concern of national security. Eventually, Judge Hall decides to release Armstrong from jail, as he is convinced she will never divulge her source and, therefore, cannot be pressured through continued incarceration. On the day she is released, Dubois has the U.S. Marshals arrest her for obstruction of justice and convinces her to take a deal for a shortened sentence rather than go to trial. She agrees to two years in prison, with the possibility of early parole for good behavior. As Armstrong is taken to the facility, she reminisces about her time as a volunteer at Timmy's school, and when she spoke to Van Doren's daughter, Alison, who revealed to her on a school field trip that her mother worked for the government and recently went to Venezuela on “business” thus revealing Alison as the original source.
瑞秋·阿姆斯特朗（凱特·貝金賽爾飾）是一個有抱負的《資本太陽時報》的記者。當她發(fā)現(xiàn)線人足球媽媽艾麗卡·范·多倫（維拉·法米加飾）是中情局的秘密特工時——她最近剛從委內(nèi)瑞拉回來，正在調(diào)查企圖暗殺美國總統(tǒng)的事——她和她當面對質(zhì)，請求確認。艾麗卡拒絕合作，但是瑞秋毫不懷疑報道的真實性。在新聞編輯邦妮·本杰明（安吉拉·貝塞特飾）和報紙的法律顧問艾微兒·阿倫森（諾西·懷爾飾）的支持下，她的故事成為頭版新聞。
因為揭露秘密特工的身份是叛逆罪行，也因為向瑞秋泄露信息的人是國家安全的潛在威脅，聯(lián)邦特別檢察官巴頓·杜波依斯（馬特·狄龍飾）召集了一個大陪審團，要求知道她的信息來源是誰，但她拒絕透露。高級律師艾伯特·伯恩賽德（艾倫·阿爾達飾）被報紙聘請，為瑞秋辯護。他確信自己和法官霍爾的個人交情將有助于相關(guān)事宜。當他的當事人因藐視法庭被判入獄時，他震驚了。
時光荏苒，過去了幾個月，但瑞秋仍堅定不移地捍衛(wèi)著保密的原則，最終疏遠了她的丈夫瑞恩（大衛(wèi)·修蒙飾），也疏遠了她年幼的兒子蒂米（普雷斯頓·貝利飾），罰款和律師費用花費了這份打官司的報紙成千上萬美元。一名極端右翼組織成員認為范·多倫關(guān)于委內(nèi)瑞拉是清白的報告顯示她不愛國。當范·多倫行駛在自己的車道時將其暗殺了。當瑞秋聽說此事后受到了重創(chuàng)，但她保持了沉默。最終，總統(tǒng)的辦公室主任站出來，承認他證實阿姆斯特朗調(diào)查了范·多倫的身份。然而，杜波依斯只對阿姆斯特朗的信息源有興趣。阿姆斯特朗請求杜波依斯，她永遠不會放棄她的信息來源，因為他們必須處理范·多倫死亡的相應后果。伯恩賽德甚至在最高法院面前為她的案子辯護，但他們以5票反對4票贊成的結(jié)果否決了他，理由是國家安全壓倒一切。

最終，霍爾法官決定從監(jiān)獄中釋放阿姆斯特朗，因為他相信她永遠也不會泄露信息源，因此，不能通過繼續(xù)監(jiān)禁施加壓力。她被釋放那天，杜波依斯讓美國法警以妨礙司法公正的名義逮捕她，用縮短刑期說服她做個交易，而不是接受審判。她同意兩年刑期，有可能因為表現(xiàn)良好而提前假釋。當阿姆斯特朗被采取措施時，她開始回首自己在蒂米學校作志愿者的時光，在一次露營時，她跟范·多倫的女兒阿倫森聊天，阿倫森向她透露，她的母親為政府工作，最近去了委內(nèi)瑞拉公干，這顯示出，阿倫森是信息來源。