Country: USA
Section: DOCUMENTARY – TEAM SPORT
Discipline: American Football
Year: 2012
Director: Jon Frankel
Time: 74 min
Projection: Saturday 7 December – 6:55 pm – Sala Terrazzo
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Synopsis
Kevin Turner is a broken man of 42, an American football superstar forced to reflect on the price he is paying for his glory years and to wonder whether in worshiping his sport, he prayed to a false god. In the decade since he retired, he lost his job, his money, his wife. In May 2010, doctors told him his once elite body was withering, consumed by ALS, a fatal disease. Still in love with American football, Turner is now fighting to raise awareness of the traumas produced by the sport’s inevitable concussions and head injuries. Does he dare continue to cheer his sons and other impassioned players? What will be his legacy?