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Title: Paterno (TV Movie 2018)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Al Pacino | ... | Joe Paterno | |
| Kathy Baker | ... | Sue Paterno | |
| Kenneth Maharaj | ... | MRI Tech | |
| Michael Mastro | ... | Guido D'Elia | |
| Joshua Morgan | ... | Bobby - Media Wrangler | |
| Ross Degraw | ... | Sports Producer | |
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Mitchell L. Mack | ... | Devon Smith (as Mitchell Mack) |
| Larry Mitchell | ... | Jay Paterno | |
| Darren Goldstein | ... | Mike McQueary | |
| Riley Keough | ... | Sara Ganim | |
| Nicholas Sadler | ... | Todd - Press Photographer | |
| Sir Brodie | ... | Security Guard | |
| Greg Grunberg | ... | Scott Paterno | |
| Annie Parisse | ... | Mary Kay Paterno | |
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Vito Vitiello | ... | Sports Director |
The film centers on Joe Paterno, who after becoming the most successful coach in college football history, is embroiled in Penn State's Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal, challenging his legacy and forcing him to face questions of institutional failure regarding the victims.
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I thought the movie was going to be your typical made for TV movie and that's exactly what we got. Not good, not bad just somewhere in the middle. That being said this movie wasn't meant to be uplifting, it was meant to be dark and brooding because of the subject matter. This movie absolutely should have been about Paterno because he is the story here. The most powerful person in the state who could have stopped this long ago but was too worried about his sport, his university and his legacy to lift a finger. Paterno was made out to be a idiot in this movie because when the scandal broke that's exactly how he acted, the portrayal is spot on. He played the old man card in the most transparent way possible, blaming his memory and feeble mindedness when asked questions after it broke that he knew what was going on. I kept expecting to hear him say no habla ingles towards the end.
Far as I'm concerned he was portrayed accurately I could care less about his legacy and even the most loyal and diehard Nittany Lion fan should feel the same.