Originally Posted by Turnbull
RICHARD JEWELL (2019)

Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser) was a security guard at the '96 Summer Olympics in Atlanta whose vigilance saved many lives when he spotted a suspicious backpack that held a powerful nail bomb. Since no good deed goes unpunished, the news media and FBI ganged up on him as a "person of interest," and made his life miserable before finally clearing him. Jewell seems simple- and single-minded in his (over)zealous devotion to law enforcement, but he retains enough smarts to keep his head above water--and is helped by a dedicated lawyer (Sam Rockwell) and his devoted mother (Kathy Bates). How Hauser didn't get an Oscar for this movie is beyond me--he is just superb and completely believable--always sympathetic, often naive but never pitiful. Well done!


I cannot stand Sam Rockwell as an actor.

Off the top of my head, he was in Poltergeist, which I remember being a terrible remake; his overacting was the worst thing about The Green Mile and in marked contrast to fine performances by the rest of the cast; and he had the subtlety of a sledgehammer in Three Billboards, although, tonally, that movie was a mess.

I invoke my right under the 5th amendment of the United States constitution and decline to answer the question.