Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Happy Valley (2014)

Director: Amir Bar-Lev
Run Time: 99 min.
Call Number: HV6570.3.S73 H37 2014

"Mr. Bar-Lev includes searching, painful interviews with Paterno’s widow and two of his sons, and with Matt Sandusky, Jerry Sandusky’s adopted son, who offers a harrowing glimpse into the household of a serial pedophile. There are conversations with critics and partisans of Penn State and its football team, including a student who thinks the punishment of the university went much too far and a lawyer who believes it did not go far enough. . . . 'Happy Valley' also records some ugly and disturbing moments, including the campus riot the night after Paterno’s firing, when students knocked down lampposts and upended cars."
—A.O. Scott, New York Times