Producer-director Clint Eastwood (“Play Misty for Me” 1971) continues to put together high quality motion pictures with “Richard Jewell.” The film is based on the true story of a security guard falsely accused by the FBI of planting the bomb that exploded at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
The movie all but sticks with the facts of the case. The outstanding screenplay was written by Billy Ray, adapted from 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.
Eastwood cast an unknown actor in the title role: Paul Walter Hauser did an excellent job as Jewell. Others include Sam Rockwell as Jewell’s attorney, Jon Hamm as the FBI agent, Olivia Wilde, Nina Arianda, Ian Gomez, Dylan Kussman, and Kathy Bates, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress as Jewell’s mother, the sole Oscar nod for Clint’s picture.
Though this movie was a flop at the box office for Warner Bros. and Clint Eastwood, “Richard Jewell” is very watchable and a jewel of a motion picture.
Richard Jewell (2019)
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My Review
Producer-director Clint Eastwood (“Play Misty for Me” 1971) continues to put together high quality motion pictures with “Richard Jewell.” The film is based on the true story of a security guard falsely accused by the FBI of planting the bomb that exploded at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
The movie all but sticks with the facts of the case. The outstanding screenplay was written by Billy Ray, adapted from 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.
Eastwood cast an unknown actor in the title role: Paul Walter Hauser did an excellent job as Jewell. Others include Sam Rockwell as Jewell’s attorney, Jon Hamm as the FBI agent, Olivia Wilde, Nina Arianda, Ian Gomez, Dylan Kussman, and Kathy Bates, who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress as Jewell’s mother, the sole Oscar nod for Clint’s picture.
Though this movie was a flop at the box office for Warner Bros. and Clint Eastwood, “Richard Jewell” is very watchable and a jewel of a motion picture.