Jackie

Tripp (Georgia) offers an intimate portrait of Jackie Kennedy during her courtship and marriage to JFK. The story starts in 1951 when Jackie has just graduated from Vassar and hopes to break into magazine publishing. Friends and family members try to set her up with Jack Kennedy, but initially she’s uninterested in the boyish congressman, perceiving him as the type who “loves a game and will leave it once he’s won.” As the two keep running into each other socially, she starts to fall for him, and eventually breaks off her engagement to stockbroker Johnny Husted. She and Jack begin dating as he hits the campaign trail in his bid for the Senate and get married in 1953. Jack’s infidelities, the death of their third child, and the stress of the Cold War cause fractures in their relationship, which are only beginning to heal in the months before their fateful trip to Dallas in 1963. Tripp brings Jackie and Jack’s romance to life through carefully crafted scenes, and offers a humanizing portrayal of Jackie’s complex love for her husband. Camelot devotees, take note. Agent: Kimberly Witherspoon, InkWell Management. (June)