Argo

When the American embassy in Iran was seized in 1979, six of the embassy staff escaped and ended up in the Canadian ambassador’s house.  “Argo,” a movie directed by and starring Ben Affleck, shows how the C.I.A. managed to bring those Americans out of Iran by pretending to make a science fiction film with Iran as the supposed location.

I recommend you see this film, now playing at the Mahoning Cinema.  It is exciting, basically accurate, occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, and at times, nail-bitingly tense.  Usually the C.I.A. is portrayed as a bumbling and ineffectual agency (which is often an accurate portrayal), but in this film it acts with intelligence and cleverness and wins a wonderful victory in the end.  The Canadian ambassador and his wife also are true heroes.  See the film.