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Here's the official trailer (+ teaser) for Barry Levinson's Paterno movie, direct from HBO's YouTube:įor more information on Levinson's Paterno and the release of the film, visit HBO's official website here.

Pacino looks fully deep into this role, should be good.

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The full cast includes Riley Keough, Annie Parisse, Kathy Baker, Greg Grunberg, Peter Jacobson, Tess Frazer, Faith Logan, Darren Goldstein, Midori Francis, and Benjamin Cook. After becoming the winningest coach in college football history, his legacy is challenged and he is forced to face questions of institutional failure. Paterno centers on Penn State's Joe Paterno in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal. While this will be airing directly on HBO, it is still a feature film, and it is the latest feature made by talented filmmaker Barry Levinson (who last made The Wizard of Lies also for HBO). The subplots suggest a toxic culture that encourages silence, but they are generic and come off as token gestures designed to appease critics who might say – as Paterno did in facing down the angry mob – the victims should be the focus, not the coach.'You want to fire me? Try it.' HBO has released an official trailer for the real-world film Paterno, telling the story of football coach Joe Paterno, played by Al Pacino. Richards’s (Sahara) screenplay spends too much time on subplots about a local reporter (Riley Keough) struggling with the superficiality of the national news media and a teenage survivor (Benjamin Cook) experiencing bullying. Unfortunately, Debora Cahn (The West Wing) and John C. It’s a timely question given #MeToo has caused so many men to reassess actions once thought of as benign.

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Instead, Levinson’s probing close-ups and flashbacks are more concerned with whodunit-type tension that teases what Paterno knew and when – a point of dispute among his supporters following the damning FBI report that concluded he did in fact conceal information.īut what we want to know is why he turned a blind eye to a serial child rapist, not how or when. Sporting a honking prosthetic nose, he portrays the coach in a permanent daze that becomes his armour against the creeping reality that his career is over. Though HBO’s trailer overplays some Pacino-y “hoo-ha” moments, Paterno is toned down by the actor’s standards.

Paterno opens with the coach undergoing an MRI that becomes a time machine as its golden walls reflect a canvas of memories in a flashback montage – a device Levinson leans on many times and the sole cinematic flourish in his otherwise straightforward retelling. Levinson’s film, starring Al Pacino as Paterno, takes place in the week preceding Paterno’s firing, which famously sent angry fans rioting in the streets. Yes, the coach fulfilled his legal duty by telling university officials, but when nothing happened he did… nothing. college football history, when it came out that he barely acted after being informed assistant coach Jerry Sandusky – later convicted on 45 counts of molesting young boys over a 15-year period – was seen raping a 10-year-old boy in a locker room shower in 2002. In November 2011, the school fired Joe Paterno, then the winningest coach in U.S. The Penn State sex-abuse scandal exposed complicity in college sports, but Barry Levinson’s drama about the school’s legendary football coach only skims the surface of the culture that allowed it happen. Airs on HBO Canada on Saturday (April 7) at 8 pm. Rating: NN