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"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." /Maya Angelou/ On this day 2 years ago happened, but my lovely memories are clear about you, Jason Clarke! 😄 Thank you for my special experiences on your shooting day, it means a lot! 😊 On this photo stand Jason Clarke and me (Orsi), on the HHhH movie set in Budapest.

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The Jason Clarke's fandom wish a Happy Halloween! 😊🐨🎃 Source: Getty Images (left), Australia Zoo (right)

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CHAPPAQUIDDICK (2017)

Starring Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms, Jim Gaffigan, Clancy Brown, Taylor Nichols, Olivia Thirlby, Bruce Dern, Thomas Kee, Sarah Elizabeth Mitchell, John Fiore, Jason Mulcahy, Andria Blackman, Tamara Hickey, Lexie Roth, Victor Warren, Alison Wachtler, Susan Garibotto and Matthew Lawler.

Screenplay by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan.

Directed by John Curran.

Distributed by Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures. 105 minutes. Not Rated.

Screened at the 2017 Philadelphia Film Festival.

Is it just, or even fair, to judge a person’s life based upon their single worst act?

Watching Chappaquiddick forces you to explore this question. Most people will agree that the late Senator Ted Kennedy did a lot of good in over 40 years of public service. However, a horrible accident in 1969 – which killed an innocent woman – always loomed like a shadow over his career. In fact, it undoubtedly cost him the Presidency.

Not to make it sound like he was the victim here. There was only one victim, Mary Jo Kopechne, and frankly she has always been somewhat overlooked in her own tragic story. She has become a name in history; not a real person with a life, passionate interests, a family, and people who loved her.

While there were some extenuating circumstances – Kennedy was still reeling from the killings of his three brothers (one in war, two to assassin’s bullets), his life was in free fall, he felt extreme pressure to live up to his brothers – two of the most beloved politicians in American history, and frankly he was probably drinking too much at the time – make no mistake, Ted Kennedy was responsible for her death, even if it was an accident. Kennedy made some colossal errors and lapses of judgment, to the point that his slow actions may have actively hindered the limited possibility of saving her life.

However, does all this make him a bad man? Or did this brief moral lapse firm up his determination to serving humanity?

The movie about this tragic event takes a commendably even-handed look at one of the most mysterious and tragic nights in American political history. It does not trade in salacious gossip. Commendably it does not make it seem like Kennedy and Kopechne were having an affair, as some of the more strident conspiracy theories have offered, though it does not completely rule that possibility out, either.

No one will ever know for sure what happened on that dark Massachusetts bridge in 1969, except for two people, and they are both dead.

Director John Curran acknowledged that fact to me before the film’s screening at the Philadelphia Film Festival. However, screenwriters Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan based the film entirely on the testimonies of Kennedy and others involved in that fateful night. They did not want to traffic in rumors or innuendo. As an old TV cop used to say: Just the facts, ma’am. Or at least as many of the facts as are possible to glean from such a long-standing mystery.

Jason Clarke does quite a good job of inhabiting the Senator as a young man, a smart, but entitled man who was not above putting his career above what was right; an early example of the current political tug of war between truth and spin. Kate Mara is also memorable in a smallish-role as the tragic victim. Bruce Dern is harshly intimidating as Joseph, the stroke-afflicted patriarch of the Kennedy clan.

In the end, I would like to think that Chappaquiddick shows a good-but-very-flawed man before he grew into his full character. It is also a fascinating snapshot of a time when politics was much more innocent – though not necessarily completely cleaner – than it is today.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2017 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: October 25, 2017.

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NEWS: This is the first official poster for CBS Films’ upcoming ghost story Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built has been released. The film stars Helen Mirren as Sarah Winchester along with Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, Angus Sampson, and Finn Scicluna-O’Prey. Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig directed and co-wrote the script with Tom Vaughan. Tim McGahan and Brett Tomberlin produced for CBS Films. Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built comes out February 2, 2018. 👈 Synopsis: Inspired by true events. On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester (Academy Award winner Helen Mirren), heiress to the Winchester fortune, it is a house that knows no end. Constructed in an incessant twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week mania for decades, it stands seven stories tall and contains hundreds of rooms. To the outsider it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman’s madness. But Sarah is not building for herself, for her niece (Sarah Snook), or for the brilliant Doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke), whom she has summoned to the house. She is building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying among them have a score to settle with the Winchesters... Source: www.dreadcentral.com

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Today is my name day, I spent my nice day with my lovely family! 😊 But my German good friend didn't forget to surprise me! 😉 Thank you, Dia! The name day (in Hungary) is like an other birthday. My name Orsolya /short form Orsi/ means "little bear".

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Last night at the Film Indipendent Forum. It was a special screening of Chappaquiddick movie. Moreover a Q&A with John Curran (director) and Jason Clarke (lead actor). "It's a lot of work becoming Ted Kennedy. It's like going to the gym. You have to get those muscles so they function."- this is a metaphor what said Jason Clarke. I'm always interested in the preparation method of becoming a character. I think this is a mysterious psychological way too.

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The poster what is speaking always to me. (On this photo is the Hungarian version) Everest was a massive and remarkable movie experience in my life two years ago when I watched first time. On Friday was my anniversary with this movie. I'm staying always thankful! 😊

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The Jason Clarke's fandom wish a belated very Happy 40th Birthday to Edward Thomas Hardy! I hope that you enjoyed your big day! ☺

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Face to face with yourself. (On this pic the actor Jason Clarke). Self-knowledge is an important and long road of everybody, moreover especially expected from an actor, if he wants to play complex role. I think that Jason Clarke is up to his job! "Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure." /Phylicia Rashad/ Source: Getty Images, Marteen de Boer

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"You are important. Because you are. Silent arrival." /Csitáry-Hock Tamás/ Jason Clarke appears at his second movie premiere. I love the Mudbound movie on TIFF! ✌

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AMAZING NEWS from Toronto! After the 'Chappaquiddick' premier here is next Jason Clarke's movie premiere! Mudbound gala premiere is today (Tuesday) at 6 PM at Roy Thomson Hall at TIFF! The guys from Mudbound can't wait the red carpet premier! They really count the minutes!!! 😉😂 Don't miss, you can watch live the event on youtube on TIFF official tube!

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Empire magazine, October 2017

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Big happiness to see the poster of 'Mudbound' movie in the press for the cast and crew and for the audience too. 😊 I can't wait to see it on Netflix!! 👌 From November 17th on Netflix and in selected theaters. Photo: @cassianelwes (Instagram) and @scribblegirl_bkln (Instagram) from Los Angeles Times @mudboundmovie (Instagram)

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Amazing news!!! 😄 Jason Clarke’s two movies (‘Mudbound’ and 'Chappaquiddick’) will run on the Toronto International Film Festival! We can see from this fact that he worked really hard last year too!!! Great job Jason, I’m proud of you!! 👏👌 . . Repost @movienewsnow on instagram “ The first official image from "Chappaquiddick” has been released; courtesy of the Toronto International Film Festival! The film, which stars Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms, Jim Gaffigan, Olivia Thirlby and Bruce Dern, centers on the true story of the 1969 car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne (played by Mara); a campaign worker for Senator Ted Kennedy (played by Clarke) who drove his car off a bridge and into a body of water.“ The film will be directed by “The Pained Veil”’s John Curran and premiere at TIFF, which runs from September 7-17.

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Great news again about a Jason Clarke movie! 😄👏The Mudbound will run on the 55th New York Film Festival what will take place September 28 - October 15 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Go ahead! 👏

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The actor Jason Clarke's faces during the interviews.