Concussion

When brilliant, tenacious, Nigerian-born forensic pathologist/neuropathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu (Will Smith), who has eight advanced degrees and is married to a nurse (Gug Mbatha-Raw) from Nairobi, discovers in Pittsburgh in 2002 that relatively young football players, such as Steelers Michael Webster (David Morse), are dying from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) due to repetitive head trauma in this eye-opening, ire-producing, well-acted, factually based, star-dotted (Luke Wilson, Paul Reiser, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Eddie Marsan, Arliss Howard, Richard T. Jones, and Stephen Moyer), 123-minute film based on Jeanne Marie Laskas's novel and in part the "Game Brain" article, he is supported by his boss (Albert Brooks) and the former Steelers' physician Dr. Julian Bailes (Alec Baldwin) while being threatened by the FBI and relentlessly ignored and attacked by the NFL and the football-adoring public.
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