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Paterno is a American televisiondrama film directed by Barry Levinson. It stars Al Pacino as former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, and his career leading up to his dismissal following the university's child sex abuse scandal in Riley Keough, Kathy Baker, Greg Grunberg and Annie Parisse also star.

The film premiered on HBO on April 7,

Plot

As Joe Paterno enters an MRI machine in November he recalls events in his life.

Joe Paterno Biography: Early Life, Family, Achievements & More

On October 29, , Paterno wins his th game as head coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions football team. During 61 years at Penn State University, he helped the former "cow college" quintuple its financial endowment and build Paterno Library. At the age of 84, Paterno is so beloved as "a coach, an educator, and a humanitarian" that a statue is outside Beaver Stadium, and so powerful that when university presidentGraham Spanier and athletic directorTim Curley asked Paterno to retire in , he refused.

Inside the stadium, Spanier, C