Happy Valley

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Call Number: DVD 364.153 Ha
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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This disc is a recorded DVD and may fail to play on some DVD equipment.
Videodisc release of the 2014 motion picture.
"The town of State College, the home of Penn State University, has long been known as Happy Valley, and its iconic figure for more than 40 years was Joe Paterno, the head coach of the school's storied football team. His program was lauded for not only its success on the field but also its students' achievements in the classroom. And Paterno took on mythic national stature as "Saint Joe." But then, in November 2011, everything came crashing down. Longtime Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with 40 counts of child sex abuse, setting off a firestorm of accusations about who failed to protect the children of Happy Valley. Was Sandusky's abuse an "open secret" in the town? Did Coach Paterno and the Penn State administration value their football program more than the lives of Sandusky's victims? Filmed over the course of the year after Sandusky's arrest as key players in the scandal agreed to share their stories, Happy Valley deconstructs the story we think we know to uncover a much more complicated and tragic tale. Director Amir Bar-Lev creates a parable of guilt, redemption, and identity crisis for a small town caught in the glare of the national spotlight."

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Tough Watch, but a good documentary submitted by timdufresne on August 22, 2018, 8:23am The Penn State scandal is still tough for me to stomach, but this was a clear-eyed, sober look at the forces that allowed this crisis to persist.