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Director Rebecca Carpenter’s father, Lewis Carpenter, was a running back for Vince Lombardi’s NFL Champion Green Bay Packers. When he dies, her family receives a surprise call from Boston University’s brain bank requesting his brain – with shocking results. Lew becomes the 18th NFL player diagnosed postmortem with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative neurocognitive disorder that can cause episodes of rage, social withdrawal, and other unusual behaviors. Carpenter finds herself at ground zero of an unfolding public health controversy and embarks on a three-year odyssey across America to explore the far-reaching implications of this “new” disease in football players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"genres":[2],"dtquality":[],"dtcast":[71031,71032,71033,71034,71035,71036,71037,71038,71039,71040],"dtdirector":[71030],"dtyear":[56415],"class_list":["post-14039","movies","type-movies","status-publish","hentry","genres-documentary","dtcast-ann-mckee","dtcast-bennet-omalu","dtcast-candy-pyle","dtcast-chris-borland","dtcast-cody-gifford","dtcast-david-hovda","dtcast-erika-brown","dtcast-james-lofton","dtcast-jerry-kramer","dtcast-jim-coan","dtdirector-rebecca-carpenter","dtyear-56415"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/movies\/14039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/movies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/movies"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14039"},{"taxonomy":"genres","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fgenres&post=14039"},{"taxonomy":"dtquality","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdtquality&post=14039"},{"taxonomy":"dtcast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdtcast&post=14039"},{"taxonomy":"dtdirector","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdtdirector&post=14039"},{"taxonomy":"dtyear","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibomovies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fdtyear&post=14039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}