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- The film stars Paul Walter Hauser as Jewell, alongside Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Olivia Wilde.
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Dec 13, 2019 · 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 is a suspect in the case. Director. Clint Eastwood. Writers. Billy Ray. Marie Brenner. Kent Alexander. Stars. Paul Walter Hauser. Sam Rockwell. Brandon Stanley.
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- 2019-12-13
Dec 21, 2019 · Jon Hamm and Ian Gomez star in the film as FBI agents investigating Jewell, though their characters are not based on real people. Read on to see how Hauser, Wilde, Sam Rockwell and Kathy...
- Katherine Schaffstall
Dec 13, 2019 · Clint Eastwood’s controversial Oscar-hopeful Richard Jewell hits theaters this weekend - here’s a guide to the cast and characters. Richard Jewell features an all-star cast that includes two Oscar-winners and a star with an uncanny resemblance to the real-life subject.
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Based on a 1997 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner, Richard Jewell’s broad narrative cleaves closely to reality. Jewell, a former sheriff’s deputy and later a campus police officer, was working security at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta when he came across a suspicious backpack near his post at a light and sound tower at Centennial Olympic Park. Th...
Shortly after the bombing, Jewell was labeled the principal suspect in the FBI’s investigation. According to Brenner, a tip-off came from one of Jewell’s former employers, Piedmont College president Ray Cleere, who had had disagreements over campus policing with Jewell. Cleere suggested that Jewell himself might have been the bomber, planting and t...
Through those trials, Jewell benefited from an unconventional partnership with his lawyer Watson Bryant, as depicted in the film. According to Brenner, the two had met 10 years earlier, when Jewell worked in the mailroom at Bryant’s office. Bryant wasn’t exactly a hot-shot defense lawyer—at the time, he was practicing real-estate law. But enraged b...
In real life, it took many more years and a good deal more police work to bring the real bomber to justice. The culprit, Eric Robert Rudolph, wasn’t captured until 2003, after evading the FBI for five years and perpetrating three other bombings. In an 11-page confessionreleased in 2005, he claimed to be motivated by hatred of gay rights, abortion a...
No character in Richard Jewellmore thoroughly embodies the film’s view of an amoral, mercenary media than Kathy Scruggs, the cackling, trash-talking crime reporter who breaks the story on the FBI’s Jewell probe after (as the movie strongly implies) offering a liaison with Hamm’s Agent Shaw. That version of events has garnered controversy leading up...
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- Alejandro de la Garza
Richard Jewell - Full Cast & Crew. An American police officer and security guard saves thousands of civilian lives when he finds a bomb-filled backpack at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
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Richard Jewell is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed and co-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.
During the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, security guard Richard Jewell discovers a suspicious backpack under a bench in Centennial Park. With little time to spare, he helps to evacuate the...
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