Richard Jewell

Richard Jewell (2019) is Clint Eastwood's fact-based drama you can watch online on iFILM. A security guard who saves hundreds of lives becomes the prime suspect within days.

It is the summer of 1996, and Atlanta is hosting the Games. During a late-night concert in the park, Jewell spots an abandoned backpack, raises the alarm and helps clear people away before a homemade bomb goes off. For a moment he is a hero. Then the FBI, working from little more than a psychological profile, quietly starts treating him as a person of interest, a newspaper leaks his name, and camera crews park outside his door. Paul Walter Hauser plays an awkward, trusting man who always wanted to serve the law and now has to fight it. Kathy Bates is his mother, Sam Rockwell the stubborn lawyer in his corner, with Jon Hamm and Olivia Wilde as the agent and reporter bearing down on him.

Eastwood films it plainly, with little music and no grandstanding, fixed on how fast a reputation can collapse. The picture earned an Academy Award nomination for Kathy Bates in the supporting category. Stream Richard Jewell (2019) online on iFILM.