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Back in 2000, Rufus Littlejohn could not believe that anyone would ever want to make a movie about his life.

Even after the Alexandria real-estate investor had spent three hours being interviewed by the screenwriter, a fellow Alexandria native with Hollywood credits to his name, Littlejohn thought the idea absurd. When he heard that some bigshot L.A.

producer named Jerry Bruckheimer was interested in the script, Littlejohn wouldn’t consider the possibility. And when friends told him that Disney and Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington—names he had heard of—were said to be on board, Littlejohn was still skeptical.

Months later, on September 28, Littlejohn and his wife were sitting in the balcony of the Cineplex Odeon, near Cleveland Park in Washington, DC.

Below, Denzel, a host of other movie stars, and even President Bill Clinton were also in attendance to watch the premiere