Genre: Biographical / Drama
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Paul Walker Hauser, Sam Rockwell, Kathy
Bates, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde
Running Time: 129 minutes
This film is inspired
by the true events of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, during the 1996 Atlanta
Summer Olympics, and their aftermaths. It showed how security guard Richard
Jewell, who found and reported the suspicious package responsible and then
helped evacuate people to reduce the damage, was later suspected by the FBI to
be the main suspect.
The performances of
Paul Walker Hauser, Sam Rockwell and Kathy Bates are clear highlights here.
They carried that film. They made you care for their characters. Olivia Wilde
did the best she could with what she was given. Her performance as Kathy
Scruggs, the real-life reporter who first exposed Jewell as the prime suspect
of the bombing, was a little big, but it is clear the filmmakers were not going
for subtlety here. Scruggs was to be seen as the “bad guy”, whether it was justified
or not.
In that sense, this film
had a clear agenda: Defending Richard Jewell’s honour once and for all. The
performances on screen did a great job at making us feel sympathy for a man
whose life was ruined by a witch hunt that left its mark.
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