Here’s everything you need to know.Week 14: Times readers chose ‘The Fugitive,’ directed by Andrew Davis, as their favorite in the Ultimate Summer Movie Showdown.Egor Abramenko’s directorial debut, the Russian Soviet-era-set horror/sci-fi film “Sputnik,” boasts artfully mashed-up genres and a strong female leadFilm critic Justin Chang sits down to discuss the Harrison Ford-starring thriller with screenwriter Darla Lansu Campbell, the movie’s No. “It’s like a John Grisham novel or Arthur Miller’s ‘The Crucible,’ or ‘Philadelphia’ or ‘A Few Good Men.’ They don’t really make movies like this anymore. Now her legendary research library sits in storage while she and her friends try to save it from becoming landfill.Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dominique Fishback star in this flashy but generic thriller.L.A. At the time, Jay Leno compared him to Shawn Eckardt, “the guy who whacked Nancy Kerrigan.” (Hauser also happens to play the movie version of Eckardt in The movie contrasts Jewell’s everyday heroism with the dual villainy of the media and the FBI, the latter of which is personified by the corrupt and incompetent FBI agent Tom Shaw (Jon Hamm). Watson Bryant and Bobi Jewell, who are portrayed by Sam Rockwell and Kathy Bates in the new film “Richard Jewell,” photographed by The … You're now an Oxygen Insider, which gives you access to exclusive videos, sweepstakes, and more.Watch your inbox and welcome to the NBCUniversal family!Bobi Jewell stuck by her son Richard Jewell when he was accused of bombing the 1996 Summer Olympics.When a man was wrongly accused of setting off a bomb at an Olympics event, it didn’t just impact him, but his mother, too.While the movie depicts how the accusations negatively impacted “I don’t know how to protect you,” her character sobs in the movie after an onslaught of unfavorable media coverage regarding her son and their home getting torn up by the FBI.88 days after the bombing, her son was cleared. “His schedule was iffy — he was gone at night most of the time — but if there was a good one he’d let me know about it and we’d watch it,” Bobi Jewell recalls by phone from Atlanta on an early-December morning. “My favorite scene is Kathy Bates – Bobi Jewell – speaking at the press conference. These and other plausible red herrings contributed to a convincing profile of Jewell as the bomber. "Jewell becomes a suspect in the case not because the FBI had any evidence, but because behavioral science experts at the FBI looked into his background and they determined that he seemed to fit the profile of the kind of person who would commit this crime," Fox News political and legal analyst Gregg Jarrett told Fox Nation. ""I believed that he was innocent from the first time that he came home and I asked him and he said, 'No ma'am. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen to anybody else.”Get our revamped Envelope newsletter, sent twice a week, for exclusive awards season coverage, behind-the-scenes insights and columnist Glenn Whipp’s commentary. While the FBI characters are fictionalized—they’re composites—the freewheeling tactics they use are based on the real-life investigation. “They wanted to solve the case quickly and not lose all that money on the Olympics, and Kathy Scruggs, she really wanted the right story. It was just devastating. The presser was actually a recreation of a real press conference held after Jewell was cleared as a suspect in the bombing. "It was just sheer hell for 88 days. He took a plea bargain to avoid capital punishment in 2005 and was sentenced to four life terms and 120 years in federal prison without parole.Correction, Dec. 12, 2019: This article originally identified everyone in Bryant’s legal team as part of “an entire team of lawyers.” Not everyone on the legal team was a lawyer. Maybe it’s a blessing that the movie doesn’t shed any light on Scruggs’ post-Olympics life; she died as wrecked in her own way by the bombing aftermath as Jewell was.