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Dec 21, 2019 · The true story behind Clint Eastwood's 'Richard Jewell' movie, about the Atlanta security guard who became a prime suspect in the bombing at the 1996 Olympics, and how Paul Walter Hauser,...
- Katherine Schaffstall
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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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Clint Eastwood
- 2019-12-13
- Richard Jewell, Hometown Hero
- “Profile of The Lone Bomber”
- An Unlikely Ally
- The Real Bomber
- A New Controversy
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...
Dec 13, 2019 · Marie Brenner reported for Vanity Fair in a 1997 article that serves as the basis for Eastwood’s film that while working as an apartment security guard, Jewell had arrested a couple for...
The film depicts the July 27 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.
- $44.65 million
- Arturo Sandoval
- $45 million
Jun 5, 2023. Rated: 3.5/5 • Aug 24, 2022. During the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, security guard Richard Jewell discovers a suspicious backpack under a bench in Centennial Park. With little ...
Nov 21, 2019 · Nov. 21, 2019 5:16 AM PT. Richard Jewell, the security guard who alerted police about a suspicious backpack that eventually exploded, saving the lives of countless people at the 1996 Atlanta...
