yes, yes there is. Some people at the time complained that it was in bad taste, but looking at some of the comments about it you can tell that it came out in an era when sexual violence against adult men was taken alot less seriously then it would be today. It would be interested to see how people now reacted to that scene if had ended up in a movie that people actually cared about and still watched.
FWIW, True Crime was #6 on Cahiers du Cinéma top 10 movies of 1999. Eastwood (as director) is tied for the 5th most appearances on their year's best lists! He had 10 movies make it. True Crime is easily the worst of those. My second least favorite of the 10 is Bridges of Madison County, and they had that one in a three way tie for the best movie of the 90s, although it was only 4th best of the year it came out?! Weird, but I'm happy to see recognition of Bird, A Perfect World, and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
I watched Richard Jewell and it was okay. You can tell it was conceived, at least by the studio, as a presecuted white guy movie, but it really is a weirdly uncommercial project with the least charismatic protagonist in Eastwood's filmography. The second half is much better than the first, thanks to Sam Rockwell stepping in a co-main character in the last hours. The part of the movie that really doesn't work, and you know there's going to be something, is Olivia Wilde as the evil #### lawyer (and this protrayal caught deserved flack).
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