Bird, Invictus, American Sniper, Sully: Hollywood veteran Clint Eastwood is preferred to be true stories in his direction. This is also the case in 2019 when he filmed the dramatic events around the title -giving security guard with the Richard Jewell case.
Eastwood’s sensitive or exciting outsider portrait did not pay much attention at the time, which is undoubtedly about one of the best films of his over 50 years of directing career. Only Gran Torino (8.0), merciless (7.7) and Mystic River (7.6) can have better average ratings in the Moviepilot community than the Richard Jewell case at the moment at 7.3 points (912 votes) lies. The moving drama runs on TV tonight.
True history on TV: that’s what the Richard Jewell case is about
Atlanta 1996: The Olympic Games are in full swing than during a concert in a park of the US city a triple pipe bomb explodes and kills two people and 111 more injured. The fact that there is no more victims is thanks to the prudent security guard Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser), who discovered a suspicious backpack and immediately had the danger area cleared.
If he is rightly celebrated as a hero for his crime in the press, the sheet suddenly turns. Since the FBI cannot find a perpetrator, its senior investigator Tom Shaw (Jon Hamm) is targeted by Jewell himself as the main suspect.
What follows is one Perverse media agitation full of defamation and false reportsFor Richard and his caring mother Bobi (Kathy Bates), becoming an exhausting tortur.
The Richard Jewell case: carefully told and outstandingly played drama
The Richard Jewell case could easily have been an ordinary drama about an incredible true story, as is made relatively often in Hollywood. That this is not the case is also due Eastwood’s farsighted direction, which sets the right priorities.
He and his screenwriter Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) do not only treat the fabric as an effective true crime case, but stay very close to their protagonist by illuminating the effects of negative reporting on him and his immediate environment.
Of course they could also be on one grandiose ensemble Leave: Kathy Bates (received an Oscar nomination for her performance), Sam Rockwell, Jon Hamm and Olivia Wilde absolutely convince in their roles.
However, the acting highlight is Paul Walter Hauser (I, Tonya), who was able to demonstrate his merciless talent here for the first time in a leading role. His performance alone as a large-scale-chewing loner, who collapses under the huge pressure of the public, has earned much more attention than the film has so far received.
When does the Richard Jewell case run on TV?
Clint Eastwoods The Richard Jewell case you can today in the night from 25 to January 26th at 00:30 a.m. on ZDF see. The broadcaster does not radiate a repetition.
The film is currently not available within a streaming flat rate, but is available as a purchase and LeiOchtivion for various streaming providers.