An Acceptable Loss is a political thriller film written and directed by Joe Chappelle and starring Tika Sumpter and Jamie Lee Curtis.

National security expert Elizabeth "Libby" Lamm is hired as an adjunct professor of foreign policy at the prestigious Grant University.

Dr. Lamm is recognizable due to a Capital Dispatch op-ed where she explains and defends her role in an attack by US forces, revealed later in the film to be a strike on Homs.

Dr. Lamm is extra cautious about security, preferring to live her daily life without an email address, cell phone, landline or computer.

This incident prompts her to dismiss her class and rush home where she finds Martin breaking into her safe.

While holding him at gunpoint, Martin admits to stalking and states that he was trying to understand how someone who could commit such an enormous atrocity, referring to the attack on Homs.

Four years earlier, Dr. Lamm is in the White House situation room and advises on a plan with a high-security group including the president and vice-president.

Dr. Lamm favors more conventional action but she is interrupted by Vice President Burke who overwhelmingly endorses Plan 712.

President Burke tries to convince her to join her cabinet as Secretary of State in exchange for burying the memoir.

Dr. Lamm realizes that the agents left the memoir with Martin and are surveilling him, hoping that he would lead them to more copies if there are any.

Tika Sumpter, Jamie Lee Curtis and Ben Tavassoli were cast as leads in June 2017.

A large portion of the film was shot at Northwestern University, Chappelle and producer Colleen Griffen's alma mater.

The website's critics consensus reads, "An Acceptable Loss attempts a political thriller approach to a serious issue, but ends up sacrificing thrills -- as well as a satisfying story -- in the bargain.