Clint Eastwood
Richard Jewell

I won't talk about the film itself, as you can find plenty to read about it everywhere, and our friend Joe has already done a great and expansive review on February 10th in the late afternoon right here on DeBasio.

Instead, I will marginally focus on other aspects, such as the actors, the production, the soundtrack, the box office earnings, etc., and to do this, I will obviously sift through some web-based sources, because otherwise, I wouldn't know how the hell to do it, ça va sans dire!

Okay, I will try to be brief as is usually my habit, although...

Let's start with "last but not least" (last but not least in the cast) Wayne Duvall, my peer as well as the cousin of the more famous (at least here in Italy) Robert Selden Duvall. He dedicated himself to cinema since '93, with 18 films to his credit and 4 solo appearances on TV series. Lately, he's been working as a commentator always on TV, where he has also tried his hand as a comedian (even in theater), in short, a guy who's rightfully making an effort (not like me, who is stuck at the Ministry, digging through files that now reach the high ceiling of the office, much to the undisguised disappointment of my boss, but so be it), and here he plays the polygraph operator for 2 or 3 minutes, called a polygraph in the film (who would have thought it was called that... not me for sure, but so be it).

Then there's Nina Arianda Matijcio, who who-the-hell-is-she? (You might rightly ask yourselves, pondering your brains), well, you won't believe it, but I already knew her having just watched the film from 2018 (lupus in fabula) "Stan & Ollie", based on the book "Laurel & Hardy - The British Tours" where she competently played Mrs. Ida Kitaeva Laurel, and with this Eastwood movie, she's already on her 11th film.

Then there's that super hot Olivia Jane Cockburn, who who-the-hell-is-she? (You might rightly ask yourselves, pondering your brains for the second time), well, this time I'm pondering too, no nothing. Here, she plays with great skill a fierce journalist who would probably even sleep with the devil just to write as in report some lines on the front page; she's great also because she's from an artistic family in the sense that both her parents are famous journalists from the USA, so if blood is thicker than water, it doesn't lie or something like that. Now, not to sound like someone who only thinks about that (even though there's some truth to it), Olivia was elected by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) as the sexiest vegetarian of the year...

You could talk for hours about Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates, suffice to say she's an acclaimed actress (and director), winner, among others, of the Oscar for "Misery", a great film from '87 based on a book by Stephen King, here playing the protagonist's mother.

Now to an actor (also from a family of artists) who has been in about sixty films over the past thirty years, two of which I fondly remember are "The Green Mile" and "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford", also an Oscar-winning supporting actor, his name is Sam Rockwell, here in the role of a lawyer.

All that's left is Paul Walter Hauser, the protagonist, about whom I know almost nothing except that he had already acted in the very good film "I, Tonya" from 2017, and he looks strikingly like Paolo from Lecce, who who-the-hell-is-he? (You might rightly ask yourselves, pondering your brains for the third time), well, I know it won't matter to practically anyone, but he was, in fact, one of the many drivers who used to take me to work here at the Ministry where my main occupation is to drive my boss crazy...

The soundtrack is entrusted to Maestro Arturo Sandoval, one of the most famous and incredibly talented trumpeters around, not to mention he's also a pianist and, of course, a composer.

And here I end with the disappointing note, even for the producer, a guy named Leonardo "Wilhelm" DiCaprio. The box office earnings seem to be around 16 million dollars in the States, while in Italy, about 3.5 million euros, but as I say, who cares.

Alright, I'll add another seventy-nine words just to say that in my opinion, good old (I mean, ninety years, that's something) Clint stretched the broth of this film a bit too much, where everyone (audience included) can't wait to find out what will happen to the agent persecuted by the media and the FBI. Yes, over two hours of being bored (with the risk of my boss catching me in the act in front of the PC screen... if you catch my drift?), okay, over and out!