Watch Ted Kennedy's Life Get Derailed in Exclusive Chappaquiddick Trailer

PEOPLE.com ^ | 20 Dec 17 | PEOPLE Staff

[seanmerc]

Nearly five decades ago, on July 18, 1969, a car went off the Dike Bridge on the island of Chappaquiddick. The driver, Ted Kennedy escaped. His 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, did not.

An upcoming movie, Chappaquiddick, attempts to tell the story of what happened that night and why it took Kennedy some ten hours to report the accident to the local Edgartown police — and PEOPLE has the exclusive first trailer and teaser poster!

[seanmerc]

Who wrote the title for that article? Ted Kennedy's life got derailed? What about Mary Jo Kopechne's life? She could not be reached for comment, of course.

[humblegunner]

Watch Ted Kennedy's Life Get Derailed

He's dead, Jim.

[seanmerc]

[Enchante]

[DIRTYSECRET]

The film should be released on the anniversary of her drowning and coincide with the pardoning of Sirhan Sirhan. Sirhan is getting old. The left is going crazy and we should really push their buttons even if it’s the wrong thing to do.

[billorites]

[Enchante]

[Eagles6]

Mystery?

No...there's no mystery about what happened.

[DoughtyOne]

Hmmm, why don’t I see this being told for any other purpose than to cover Ted’s ass on this?

[CGASMIA68]

The Grand Daddy of sexual abusers.........”and now the rest of the story”

Derns a wacko wonder who he will play

[BenLurkin]

Everyone knows it took him ten hours to report the death because he wanted his sky-high blood alcohol level to burn off. Is this movie going to try to come up with some other explanation?

[outpostinmass2]

He contacted authorities the next morning, after Kopechne’s body had already been discovered.

[CGASMIA68]

Just read the article and saw Derns role

[Enchante]

Naturally, the Boston Globe began printing Kennedy family propaganda immediately, with the b.s. about Teddy "wanders in a daze for hours"..... B.S. He left the woman to die and headed straight back to his friends, then his hotel, to begin the cover-up.

[Yaelle]

Maybe Ted’s life gets derailed in the TRAILER. Because the 2nd degree murder didn’t derail him at all at the time.

[Yaelle]

Kate Mara is really good at getting murdered by sexual assaulters. Typecasting.

[Mears]

Kennedys grabbing the headlines-———as usual.

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[Titus-Maximus]

The old man pushed Joe, Joe pushed Jack, Jack pushed Bobby, Bobby pushed Teddy and Teddy fell on his ass.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I didn’t know he was still acting.

[Enchante]

Not only that, he was going to try to pretend he was never there.... until it became impossible to get away with that. He tried to establish a fake alibi back at his hotel, to make it seem like he had been there sleeping. It was only when his attempt to escape all connection with the death fell apart that he began concocting other cover stories.