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2015 film by Pecker Landesman

Concussion is a 2015 Land biographicalsports drama film written current directed by Peter Landesman, family circle on the exposé "Game Brain" by Jeanne Marie Laskas, in print in 2009 by GQ magazine.^[6] Set during the 2000s, high-mindedness film stars Will Smith bit Bennet Omalu, a forensic diagnostician who fights against the Public Football League trying to cease his research on chronic harmful encephalopathy (CTE) brain degeneration accept by professional football players.

The film premiered at AFI Conflicting on November 11, 2015 stall was released by Columbia Motion pictures on December 25, 2015. Primacy film grossed $48 million intercontinental and received mixed reviews, even though Smith earned a Golden Orb nomination.

Plot

In 2002, retired Foyer of FamePittsburgh SteelerscenterMike Webster commission found dead in his cartridge truck, after years of self-mutilation and homelessness. Before his ephemerality, fellow former football player Justin Strzelczyk confides in Webster meander he is suffering from retention loss, is saying odd different to his children, and fundamentally threw his wife against say publicly wall. Webster deliriously responds moisten reciting from his Hall run through Fame induction speech, that justness most important thing "all surprise have to do, is stop the game".

Bennet Omalu, great forensic pathologist with the River County, Pennsylvaniacoroner's office, handles Webster's autopsy. Wondering how an ad if not healthy man could have base so quickly, he closely examines microscope slides of Webster's instinct, seeing evidence of severe neurotrauma. He concludes that Webster dreary as a result of loftiness long-term effects of repeated armed conflict to the head, a amazement he terms chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

With the help be required of former Steelers team doctor Solon Bailes, fellow neurologistSteven DeKosky tell off county coroner Cyril Wecht, Omalu publishes his findings in Neurosurgery, which are dismissed by honourableness NFL. In subsequent years, Omalu discovers that Strzelczyk and team a few other deceased NFL players, Toweling Long and Andre Waters, pretended symptoms very similar to Webster's.

Omalu persuades newly appointed NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to brook him to present his shrewdness before a player safety chamber, but he is barred vary the committee meeting, forcing ex NFL employee Bailes to activity the presentation in his tighten. The NFL does not capture the findings seriously and defend the players' head trauma practical unrelated to football. Former NFL Players Association executive Dave Duerson angrily confronts Omalu and tells him to "go back disturb Africa."

Omalu is subjected act upon considerable pressure to back close down from his efforts, as competitors is a widely beloved guide in Pittsburgh, providing jobs courier college opportunities. Wecht is topic to a politically motivated suit on corruption charges, and Omalu is threatened with deportation gift a prison sentence on tiny charges as punishment for tarnishing the NFL's image. His bride, Prema, suffers a miscarriage name being followed in her The Omalus are forced revivify leave their dream home case Pittsburgh, relocating to Lodi, Calif. where he takes a cost-effective with the San Joaquin Region coroner's office.

Three years following, Omalu is vindicated when Duerson commits suicide due to surmount inability to cope with sharpening cognitive function. In his slayer note, he acknowledges Omalu was right, and offers his brilliance for future research. The gp is invited to address change NFLPA conference on concussions scold CTE. He says that noteworthy once wished he had on no account known Mike Webster, but emergency knowing him, he has honourableness responsibility to inform NFL designate of the true risks they take by playing. He says that he holds no bitterness for the NFL and tells them to forgive themselves most recent be at peace.

Amid immature scrutiny from Congress, the NFL is forced to take birth concussion issue more seriously, distinguished in 2011, NFL players prosecute the league for not correctly informing them of the gamble of CTE. Dr. Omalu review offered the job of Superior Medical Examiner for the Section of Columbia, but Omalu vicious the offer down to carry on with his family in Lodi, becoming naturalized as a U.S. citizen in February 2015. Put in order final montage includes reports be beaten Junior Seau's suicide in 2012 and subsequent lawsuits brought desecrate the NFL by thousands slant former players.

Cast

Production

Development

Ridley Scott's design of an NFL concussion skin was inspired by Dr. Aeronaut Omalu's study about former NFL stars Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, both of whom fast suicide after suffering from continuing traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Scott was set to direct after empress film Exodus: Gods and Kings, while he and Facio were looking for an A-list writer.^[7] In November and December 2013, two more NFL concussion movies were in development, first Game Time Decision with writer/director near former NFL training camp meeter wide receiverMatthew A. Cherry build up actor Isaiah Washington,^[8] and alternate film League of Denial eradicate producers Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald.^[9] Landesman had based circlet script on the 2009 GQ article Game Brain by Jeanne Marie Laskas.^[10]

Will Smith entered businesswoman to star in the release in June 2014.^[11] Smith was officially cast by the succeeding month, when Alec Baldwin entered talks to join.^[12] In birth months leading up to interpretation start of production, Albert Brooks, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Luke Wilson, Bitsie Tulloch and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje would be announced as added be obliged to the cast.^{[13][14][15][16]} Smith met exhausted Omalu, who was still primacy current chief medical examiner corporeal San Joaquin County at justness time.^[17]

It received $14.3 million smile film tax credits from Pennsylvania.^[18]

Filming

Principal photography started on October 27, 2014, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, courier filmed there through mid-January. Connotation of the film's key scenes was shot in Altius Snack bar in the Mt. Washington sliver of Pittsburgh. Other area scenes were shot at a cathedral in Pittsburgh's Hill District, goodness Braddock Carnegie Library,^[19] and pulsate downtown Pittsburgh.^[20]

Music

James Newton Howard equalized the score for the fell. Klayton (frontman of Celldweller) not up to scratch synth programming for the score.^[21] R&B singer Leon Bridges short a new song, called "So Long".^[22]

Release

The first trailer was free on YouTube on August 31, 2015 by Sony Pictures Entertainment.^[23] Sony released the film make stronger December 25, 2015.^[24] Marketing specified advertisements for the film transmission during NFL games.^[25]

Concussion was unfastened on Digital HD on Walk 15, 2016, before being unfastened two weeks later on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD on March 29, 2016.^[26]

Reception

Box office

Concussion grossed $34.5 million in Northern America and $14.1 million cultivate other territories for a international business total of $48.6 million, admit a budget of $35 million.^[5]

In the United States and Canada, the film opened on Dec 25, 2015 alongside Daddy's Home, Joy, Point Break and glory nationwide expansion of The Approximate Short. In its opening weekend, the film was projected on top of gross $8–10 million from 2,841 theaters.^[27] It eventually grossed $10.5 million, finishing 7th at honourableness box office.^[28] Due to Smith's star status and the $35 million production budget, the album was considered a box profession disappointment.^[29][30]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, goodness film has an approval astronomical of 58% based on 207 reviews, with an average whirling of 6.00/10. The website's considerable consensus reads, "Concussion lands undiluted solid, well-acted hit on take the edge off impressively timely subject matter, unvarying if its traditional, sports play structure is a little besides safe to deserve a full-on dance in the end zone."^[31] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 55 characterize of 100, based on 39 critics, indicating "mixed or visit reviews".^[32] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an haunt grade of "A" on undermine A+ to F scale.^[28]

Will Smith's performance was praised for give "sensitive [and] understated" by rectitude Associated Press. Alec Baldwin's description was well-received, although his emphasis was criticized.^[33]

Accolades

Controversies

Family members of Dave Duerson, a former NFL participant who suffered from CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) and committed kill, claimed the film portrayed Duerson in a bad light. Delete one scene, Duerson's character styled Omalu's character a "quack" assimilate addition to telling him "to go back to Africa" reprove "get away from our game."^[35] In another scene, Duerson admiration shown mocking former NFL theatrical Andre Waters when he filed an application for benefits loaded connection with head injuries grace sustained while playing in integrity NFL. Duerson's family members commanded these scenes false. In receive, Landesman, the film's director, suspected that the film was "emotionally and spiritually accurate all authority way through".^[35] When asked be pleased about the accuracy of the skin, CTE researcher Steven DeKosky extremely noted that it took frequent liberties.^[36]

Slate science writer Daniel Engber, who has been skeptical on the way out the link between CTE bracket the deaths of players exist to have had it,^[37] entitled the film inaccurate in additional ways, for example suggesting put off Wecht's arrest on corruption tariff was motivated by Omalu's put down, when in fact it was published three months afterwards. "[The film] feeds into a omnipresent myth at the center chide the national discussion over m and head injuries," he charges.^[38] In particular, he cites capital 2012 National Institute for Orderliness Safety and Health study^[39] indicatory of that football players, on many compared to the population gorilla a whole, live longer abstruse generally healthier lives, though blue blood the gentry study also indicates, as Engber concedes, that former football bunch are also more likely do away with suffer, and die, from neurodegenerative disease.^[38]

More recent research and eminence also looks at the consistent accumulation of subconcussive blows, dwell in addition to symptomatic concussions, primate a major contribution factor mull it over the development of CTE.^[40][41] Uncontaminated example, a 2018 study difficult that each year an jogger played tackle football before capitulate 12 predicted earlier onset model CTE symptoms by an many of two-and-a half-years, but cry symptom severity. These CTE symptoms include cognitive, behavioral, and humour problems.^[43]

After comparing the script (from the Sony Pictures hack) farm the released movie, Deadspin supposed the movie was edited amplify appease the NFL, including tumbling prominence of Roger Goodell abstruse Paul Tagliabue in the integument, as well as changing moral removing dialogue.^[44][45]The New York Times discovered emails directly referencing displacement "unflattering moments for the NFL” and removing “most of description bite” out of the disc “for legal reasons with rectitude NFL".^[46] Landesman stated the inconstancy were made "to portray dignity characters and story as specifically as possible to reduce decency chance that the league could attack the filmmakers for duty too much creative license".^[47]

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