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Set during the 2000s, the film stars Will Smith as Bennet Omalu, a forensic pathologist who fights against the National Football League trying to suppress his research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) brain degeneration suffered by professional football players.
Dec 25, 2015 · Concussion: Directed by Peter Landesman. With Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, Gugu Mbatha-Raw. In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
- (101K)
- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Peter Landesman
- 2015-12-25
Dec 24, 2015 · It’s been 10 years since Dr. Julian Bailes placed his fateful phone call to Dr. Bennet Omalu, the pathologist who discovered a disease he named “chronic traumatic encephalopathy” in the...
Sep 14, 2009 · On a foggy, steel gray Saturday in September 2002, Bennet Omalu arrived at the Allegheny County coroner’s office and got his assignment for the day: Perform an autopsy on the body of Mike...
Dec 3, 2015 · Meet Dr. Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian-born doctor who against all odds became a central figure in the conversation around how concussions affect athletes who suffer them – youth, pro or...
- Gregg Rosenzweig
A scene early in the movie Concussion shows forensic pathologist and neuropathologist Bennet Omalu, MD, played by Will Smith, driving a car as the reflection of an airliner passes across the windshield.
Dec 24, 2015 · The film stars Will Smith as Dr. Omalu, a forensic pathologist who grew up in Nigeria and was working as a coroner in 2002 when the body of former Steelers star and Hall of Famer Mike...
