No matter how good you are at your job or dedicated to the cause, it does not justify your criminal actions, nor do they justify actions of people around you who choose to sit on the knowledge or suspicions that you are breaking the law. Paterno movie on HBO follows Joe Paterno’s last two weeks before he was relieved of duties as the head coach of Penn State’s Natty Lions football team, in the aftermath of the Sandusky Scandal.
Paterno Movie Cast
Debora Cahn writes the drama that puts light on the events after the scandal broke, allowing you to decide if Paterno did enough or nothing and whether he was ritght or wrong. Barry Levinson (Rain Man) directs the movie with Al Pacino in the lead role as Joe Paterno.
Paterno (2018)
Directed By: Barry Levinson
Cast: Al Pacino, Riley Keough, Kathy Baker, Greg Grunberg, Annie Parisse And Larry Mitchell
Network: HBO
Air Date: April 7 2018, 8 PM ET/PT
Paterno Movie Story
Sandusky Scandal shook the entire state and especially Penn State football when their assistant coach was held guilty of child abuse in 2011. That put the entire coaching staff and the administration of the school in the spotlight and questioned their integrity. Joe Paterno was the best coaches Paenn State ever had and won them the most series.
However, all that glory was put under a cloud of institutional failure as horrors and the tenure of Sandusky’s crime came to the fore. The movie doesn’t, however, span the years of the crime. It focuses on the last two weeks of Paterno in office and lays down how things unfolded during that time.
Paterno Movie Trailer
Watch this trailer of Paterno movie and tell us if agree with the portrayal of the events.
Paterno Movie Reviews
The movie is not sensational is any way. It shows you what Paterno possibly knew and did not act on. It shows his family making the heinous crime sink in, but it also depicts Paterno as a frail old man, one who perhaps could really act. Al Pacino’s performance along with the supporting cast makes this intense drama a must-watch. Here are some critics views,
“Thin supporting characters, the strange structural choices and the still-elusive nature of several facts in the timeline make it more of an introspective snapshot of a tragic moment of reckoning than anything revelatory.” ~ Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter
“Brilliant as ever, Pacino is the master trickster who manages to both demonize andhumanize Paterno.” Verne Gay, Newsday
“if you’re going to make a half-baked film about a potent, exhaustively covered real-life event, make sure you hire Pacino to make your work look better than it is.” ~ Davis Wiegand, The San Fransisco Chronicle
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