Richard Jewell is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Billy Ray. 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. It stars Paul Walter Hauser as Jewell, alongside Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Olivia Wilde. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances and Eastwood’s direction.
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Richard Jewell is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Billy Ray. 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. It stars Paul Walter Hauser as Jewell, alongside Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Olivia Wilde. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances and Eastwood’s direction. It was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the ten best films of the year. However, the film was criticized for its portrayal of a real-life reporter, Kathy Scruggs. It grossed USD 43 million against its USD 45 million budget, and earned nominations at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes. It is based on a 1997 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner and the 2019 book The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and RichardJewell, the Man Caught in the Middle by Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen. The movie was released in the United States on December 13, 2019, by Warner Bros.
Pictures and was theatrically released in Europe on December 14, 2019. It has yet to be released in Australia, where it has been released in cinemas since December 18, 2013. It will be available on Blu-ray and DVD in the U.S. and Canada on December 19, 2014. The UK release date is December 20, 2014, and the UK release dates are December 21, 2014 and December 22, 2015. The US release date of the film is December 23, 2015, and December 24, 2016, respectively, in the UK and Europe. It opens in Australia on December 26, 2015 and December 27, 2016 in the US and Europe on November 28, 2016. The U.K. release date for the movie is December 29, 2016 and December 31, 2017, in Australia and Canada. The United States release the film on December 28, 2017 and December 30, 2008, in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, and London, and on November 30, 2009, in Los Angeles, Japan, and in the Netherlands, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands. The American release dates for the film are November 20, 2018, and November 29, 2008.
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