Judging Jewell (2014)
On Saturday, July 27, 1996, a terrorist’s bomb exploded in Centennial Olympic Park at the Atlanta Summer Games, killing two and injuring 111. The toll would have been far higher if not for security guard Richard Jewell, who discovered the bag holding the bomb and helped clear the area. Yet within hours, praise of his heroism turned to vicious accusations. Jewell would be hounded for months by investigations and the media. Eventually, the FBI would capture and convict Eric Robert Rudolph for the crime. Judging Jewell revisits the scene in Atlanta where Richard Jewell, a man simply doing his job, lost the one thing he valued most — his honor.
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One of my all time favorites.
There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.
This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.
It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
30 for 30 Shorts: Judging Jewell (2014)Terrific episode in the ESPN series takes a look at the 1996 bombing in Centennial Olympic Park, which killed two people during the Atlanta Olympics. At first it appeared that security guard Richard Jewell was a hero but the media, needing to a suspect, soon turned him into an evil monster and for 88 days his name and reputation was ruined before the FBI finally cleared him.I'm old enough to remember all of the events in this film and it's just a real shame that Jewell was never made out to be the hero he was. It's clear through this film and others that the media will twist, turn and report anything in order to be the first and it doesn't matter who gets hurt. Especially in today's times we see this happening all the time; the media trying to make a story no matter what the truth is. This documentary does a fantastic job at telling Jewell's story and how it effected and ruined his life. His mother, widow, lawyer and various others are interviewed here and talk about what these 88 days did to the man. This is certainly one of the best episodes in the series and there's no doubt that it warrants a feature length documentary.Episode: A+