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GLEASON

By Clay TWEEL

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Documentary - Completed 2016


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Sundance 2016
SXSW 2016
Festival Favorite--Audience Award
Hot Docs 2016
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    • Year of production
    • 2016
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 110 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Clay TWEEL
    • Writer(s)
    • Clay TWEEL
    • Producer(s)
    • Seth GORDON, Kimi CULP, Kevin LAKE
    • Synopsis
    • At the age of 34, Steve Gleason, a former NFL defensive back and New Orleans hero, was diagnosed with ALS and given a life expectancy of two to five years. Weeks later, Steve and his wife Michel discovered that Michel was pregnant with their first child. Director Clay Tweel's film masterfully assembles roughly four years of footage, including personal and surprisingly humorous video journals shot by Gleason himself for his then-unborn son Rivers, and the athlete's globe-trotting adventures undertaken as part of his mission to live his life to the fullest. What emerges from this incredibly intimate portrait is not only a showcase of an astonishing assertion of the human spirit, but, more importantly, a powerful and inspirational look at life, love and family, and the intense bonds between husbands and wives and fathers and sons, in sickness and in health.
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