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Last modified on Wed 17 Mar 2021 09.02 EDT âI learned a great lesson from Chappaquiddick ⦠donât drive over narrow bridges when youâre pissed out of your mind.â This gag from the BBCâs 1970s sketch show Not the Nine OâClock News, with Griff Rhys Jones playing a sombre Ted Kennedy, perfectly encapsulates his cynicism and self-pity. It seems to me more apposite than this lenient movie about Chappaquiddick, which now belatedly appears in the UK, starring Jason Clarke as Kennedy, scripted by first-time feature writers Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan, and directed by John Curran. While driving back in darkness from a party at Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts in July 1969, Kennedyâs car went off a narrow bridge into the water. Kennedy swam clear, but his passenger drowned: Mary Jo Kopechne, a woman who had worked as a researcher for his late brother Bobby. Having failed to report the incident for eight hours and toyed with the idea of ....