Security guard Richard Jewell is an instant hero after foiling a bomb attack at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, but his life becomes a nightmare when the FBI leaks to the media that he...
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★★★★★
It's amazing stories like these that I wish we got more of. I'm sure there are many more like this one that would be great for film as an avenue for people to learn about.
SYNOPSIS: During the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, aspiring police officer Richard Jewell (...
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"Richard Jewell" (2019 release; 125 min.) brings the story of the suspected 1996 Atlanta bomber. As the movie opens, it is "1986 Atlanta" and Jewell is working as a supply room manager in a small law firm. He gets to know one of the lawyers,, Watson Bryant. We...
★★★★★
Even as a former prosecutor I would have liked to arrest the FBI and media people who ruined Richard Jewell's reputation, life.I wish at the end the movie clarified how he won some settlements against the offending newspaper and others. Clint Eastwood is truly...
★★★★★
"There's a bomb in Centennial Park. You have thirty minutes." Richard Jewell (Paul Walther Hauser).
"Richard Jewell" is a docudrama among the best this year and any year. Director Clint Eastwood has a gift for depicting ordinary men of every kind heroically u...
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Any "normal person" who has ever been involved as the subject of a targeted media story can tell you reporters can be monsters. Never an apology, rarely a correction, they just move on the the next story leaving a wake of destruction.
