New ‘Brian Banks’ featurette goes behind the story of lost opportunity, false accusation
The inspirational true story of Brian Banks (Aldis Hodge), an All-American high school football star committed to USC who finds his life upended when he is wrongly convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. Despite lack of evidence, Banks is railroaded through a broken justice system and sentence to a decade of prison and probation. Years later, with the support of Justin Brooks ( Greg Kinnear) and the California Innocence Project, Banks fights to reclaim his life and fulfill his dreams of playing in the NFL.