Running for His Life: The Lawrence Phillips Story

6.8

|2016|90 min

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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