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Running for His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story 2016 123movies

Running for His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story 2016 123movies

Dec. 16, 201690 Min.
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Watch: Running for His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – Feature length documentary examining the troubled life and tragic death of college football standout and talented NFL running back Lawrence Phillips, whose scars of childhood abuse and abandonment haunted him throughout his career..
Plot: Feature length documentary examining the troubled life and tragic death of college football standout and talented NFL running back Lawrence Phillips, whose scars of childhood abuse and abandonment haunted him throughout his career.
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Interesting Look at a Trouble Human Being
I remember watching Phillips in the 1996 Fiesta Bowl run wild over the Gators. I am from Florida and remember well Nebraska playing Florida teams three straight years for the National Title. He was a beast. I thought, like most people, he would be an amazing NFL talent. As the documentary shows, he could run away from linebackers and defensive backs, but he could not run from his past.

Its that mindset that always bothers me. Not every abused child grows up to be a monster. Not all people who become monsters were abused. There is a certain level of responsibility that NO ONE in this documentary seems to accept. Phillips had a terrible childhood filled with abandonment, abuse, and loss. But he made his own decisions and failed to control his anger. None of his friends, coaches, relatives seemed to accept his issues and/or try to do anything about them. They just kept saying what a sweet, kind, smiling kid he was as a youngster. The documentary kept showing over and over the same 3 or 4 pictures of Phillips with a wide grin on his face. As if that excuses them using him for his talent or his celebrity and not stopping his mad crash. I understand its not their job to try and control his demons, but good lord, Tom Osborne basically sold his soul to get Phillips on the field for the Fiesta Bowl. Much like today’s sporting climate, it was only after the media started publishing the photos and the stories did Osborne finally convince Phillips to declare for the draft.

The documentary, despite its bleeding heart leanings, is well done. The interviews and timeline are top-notch. Ross Greenburg did an exceptional job of weaving all these folks, (except for the girlfriend Phillips dragged down three flights of stairs by her hair who refused to take part), was impressive. You could see these people cared about Phillips, but he was a raging river and they were just the rocks he slammed into and around, like so many defensive backs. Greenburg did an outstanding job of getting these folks to open up about their own torment of being part of Phillips’ life. My opinion of Phillips didn’t change after seeing the film, but my empathy for those who he affected has. The film does a marvelous job of showing you a timeline of how Phillips got to where he ended up with the interviewees providing the narrative.

I just wish the folks would have opened up more about Phillips’ dark side. In order to get the full measure of a man, you can’t just discuss his positive side. He had a great smile? Was he smiling when he choked his girlfriend into unconsciousness? He ate dinner at your home at your table with your teenage son? Great. Was he being a great role model for teenagers when he tried to run them down after a pickup football game? They all wanted to discuss his good side, but clammed up about his darker impulses (except for his last girlfriend whose assault ultimately sent him to jail). She was brutally honest and you could tell it still pained her. She loved the man, but was helpless to understand him.

All in all, its a well done documentary. It fell short on being the full measure of the man due to the reason stated above. Still, I have a little more insight into a human being and an athlete who seemed to have it all, but couldn’t outrun the ghosts still chasing him it. May he have found peace in death that eluded him in life.

Review By: Eric266
Maddening and heartbreaking
Yes, he was given many opportunities to get his act together, and many more than a ‘normal’ person would have been given. However, when you pluck a child with such a troubled upbringing with little/no role models to shape his young life, there needs to be a better system in place to assist these young people in becoming more productive outside of the scope of their talents.

We’ve come a long way in regard to mental health issues, but what might have been in Lawrence’s all too young life is now gone forever. It’s a constant strain that we, as a society, need to begin to address sooner rather than later.

Imagine his life with some inpatient rehab and sincere counseling to affect his brain and correct the faulty wiring in his brain after what most knew was a horrible tragedy waiting to happen when he assaulted Kate McEwen? I know Coach Osbourne struggles mightily with his decisions at the time, but given the people within the Huskers organization and what we knew then, I’m not sure much would have been done differently.

This shining star of a young man was extinguished far too soon, and watching the far too smug and conceited attorney who prosecuted him regarding the murder of his cell mate only reiterates my belief that once a man is behind bars, his life is viewed as ‘less than’ and tossed in the shredder. Perhaps he did murder his cell mate, perhaps not, but what this young man needed in his life was a little compassion, a little empathy, and a little psychiatric assistance.

What led him to this cold, dark place was many mistakes with little assistance to get him the help he truly needed to be free of the past that seemed hell-bent on destruction.

Prison reforms are a great place to start, increasing counseling opportunities when these tendencies first arise, and close monitoring prior to escalation that was and still is clearly evident in our everyday lives. We pay college coaches in most states better than we do our governing bodies, and while STEM programs have been pushed ad nauseum, what we need is more focus on a strained-to-the-point-of-breaking mental healthcare professionals.

Throwing fistfuls of money at our issues is a hubris that’s led to our own undoing- perhaps now, we should be looking for REAL solutions to repair what can only be described as a cataclysmic failure to ensure the least of us have a chance at not only surviving, but thriving.

Lawrence Phillips is a cautionary tale for anyone paying attention that, unless we begin working together to ensure those with mental health struggles can receive the help they so desperately need, we shall be left with more sorrowful and heartbreaking tales of watching them fall through the cavernous cracks that await them, and take our society down in the process.

It’s worth noting that I view myself as right-of-center, and truly believe the death penalty should be abolished. We’ve seen far too many innocent men completely exonerated to ever be comfortable with executing another life.

Review By: helenahandbasket-93734

Other Information:

Original Title Running for His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story
Release Date 2016-12-16
Release Year 2016

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 25 min (85 min)
Budget 0
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Status Released
Rated TV-14
Genre Documentary
Director Ross Greenburg
Writer Lars Anderson, Al Briganti, Armen Keteyian
Actors Jimmy Johnson, Tom Osborne, Lawrence Phillips
Country United States
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Running for His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story 2016 123movies
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