Will Smith plays Bennet Omalu, an over-educated Nigerian doctor who works as a pathologist in (or near, anyway) Pittsburgh. When Hall of Fame football player Mike Webster landed on his autopsy table at the age of 50, Omalu spent his own money to determine what was wrong with Webster's brain - and discovered something that was eventually named Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). Essentially, "you get too many minor concussions playing football, you get brain problems and you die young." The movie follows his attempts to tell the National Football League about it (according to the movie, he was surprised that they didn't want to hear it - and they have highly paid lawyers to prevent conversations ...), while also trying to start a family. The movie runs from roughly 2002 through 2009 - by which time the NFL was finally forced to acknowledge there might be some small problem ...

Smith is good as Omalu, and he gets good backup from Gugu Mbatha-Raw as his love interest and wife, David Morse as Webster, Albert Brooks as his mentor and head coroner Cyril Wecht, and Alec Baldwin as a former team doctor Julian Bailes - who's very unhappy with what's happening to his former players. The final product is a well constructed (if not stellar) movie about a rather interesting and disturbing subject. It's a good portrait of a man who did what was right in the face of very nasty opposition, and deserves all the accolades this movie implies.