Richard Jewell (2019)

Directed by

Clint Eastwood

Genre

drama film, biographical film, crime film, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 09m

Rated

R

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 2,745 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A security guard finds a bomb during the 1996 Olympics and saves lives. Then the FBI and media wrongly accuse him of planting the bomb. The film follows his fight to clear his name.

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What happens

Richard Jewell is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Billy Ray. It is based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article "American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell" by Marie Brenner and the 2019 book The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle by Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen. The film depicts the July 27, 1996, Centennial Olympic Park bombing and its aftermath, as security guard Richard Jewell finds a bomb during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and alerts authorities to evacuate, only to later be wrongly accused of having placed the device himself. The film stars Paul Walter Hauser as Jewell, Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Olivia Wilde. After its world premiere on November 20, 2019, at AFI Fest, the film was theatrically released in the United States on December 13 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It grossed $44 million against a $45 million budget and received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances (particularly those of Bates, Rockwell, and Hauser) and Eastwood's direction. However, several journalists criticized the film's portrayal of the reporter who first accused Jewell, Kathy Scruggs, specifically its depiction of her trading sex for stories. Richard Jewell was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the ten best films of the year, and for her performance in the film Bates won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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