Richard Jewell

Clint Eastwood takes aim at the media in this sturdily told, strongly acted true-life tale of an unlikely American hero forced to endure harrowing public scrutiny Clint Eastwood is partial to accidental real-life heroes in recent years, and he's found a good, if unprepossessing one, in Richard Jewell, a lively, none-too-flattering look at the "media lynching" of a security guard the press decided was responsible for a bombing at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. FBI honcho Tom Shaw (Jon Hamm) is convinced they've got their man in their sights - and the film shows him receiving sexual favors from the real-life (but now deceased) Atlan ta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs (Olivia Wilde) in exchange for the tip. (According to the current editorin-chief of the newspaper, there is no evidence this happened.) Jewell's life becomes hell, with the media on his case day and night and the FBI invading the family apartment.