Brian Banks Movie Opens Today

by | Aug 9, 2019

Brian Banks movie opens nationwide

(L-R) Greg Kinnear and Justin Brooks

Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for! The Brian Banks movie opens today across the United States. The film follows the story of Brian Banks, a California Innocence Project (CIP) client, as he works to clear his name and resume his dream of playing professional football. The film has already won awards (LA Film Festival, Cleveland Film Festival, Humanitas Prize) and promises to draw big crowds. The initial nationwide release includes over 600 theaters with the possibility for more theaters down the road (see HERE for a downloadable list of theaters). The movie should be available in an area near you. If it’s not, it might be worth waiting a little while after its release and then looking on Pirate Bay to see if they have a download of that movie available. To get onto the Pirate Bay website, you will probably need to use a proxy, such as Proxybay. Due to its initial success, it’s likely that this movie will be on Pirate Bay soon.

Tom Shadyac (Ace Ventura, Liar Liar, Patch Adams) directed the film that includes Greg Kinnear (as CIP Director Justin Brooks), Aldis Hodge (as Brian Banks), Tiffany Dupont (as CIP attorney Alissa Bjerkhoel), Sherri Shepherd (as Banks’ mom), Morgan Freeman, and more. Doug Atchison, who wrote Akeelah and the Bee, wrote the screenplay for the Brian Banks movie.

“I am so happy my story is being told on the big screen,” says Brian Banks. “Not only does the film tell my story, it showcases the work the California Innocence Project did to exonerate me, and it brings hope to the many people still in prison for crimes they did not commit. I implore everyone to see this film and do their part to fix our broken criminal justice system.”

Many people have seen the film around the country and are urging others to make their way to the theater.

 

 

 

“This movie is important for the justice system because it gives a powerful example of an innocent person pleading to a crime he did not commit,” says Justin Brooks, Director of the California Innocence Project at California Western School of Law. “Our criminal sentences have become so lengthy that even innocent people don’t want to go to trial and risk a conviction, so they take deals for shorter sentences. When innocent people plead guilty there is something broken in our criminal justice system.”

– Make a Donation to the California Innocence Project –

To read more about the story, check out the case page for Brian Banks on our website. For information on the film, check out the Brian Banks movie IMDB page.