Susan McDougal's Whitewater book to be feature film next year

"Crash" duo Bobby Moresco and Mark R. Harris are joining forces to give the saga of Whitewater figure Susan McDougal the feature treatment.

McDougal spent 21 months in prison on civil contempt of court charges for refusing to implicate President Bill Clinton in the real estate scandal.

Moresco will write the script and direct. Harris and Moresco, who produced "Crash," will produce the McDougal film together.

They've secured rights to McDougal's story, as well as her book "The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk." The film may be ready next year and would bring Whitewater back to public consciousness at a time when Hillary Clinton vies to secure the Democratic Party nomination for president.

Former president Clinton nevertheless supports the film, said Moresco and Harris.

"We sat in a room with him, and he told us how much the story needs to be told," Moresco said. "He even gave us his take on the movie -- that when you face impossible odds as Susan did, the only way you can achieve victory is to not lose sight of who you are. That is what Susan never gave up."

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117963362.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

That woman was so brave and strong.

her story.
This is the stark picture of abuse of power.
It should be an effective film for the coming election.

we all lived through it with her. I'm hoping they don't hold back and tell it just like it was.

the orange jumpsuit, shackles and chained handcuffs.. grrrrrh!

Her story needs to be more widely understood.

That worked so well with "Iraq for Sale." Get awareness of this outrageous and shameful chapter in American history out there into the mainstream. Because you know it will be roundly ignored by conventional Corporate media, so complicit in the Whitewater "investigation" were they.

I really admired how brave and her strength of character. Tough and smart lady!:applause: