And Geraldine Chaplin manages the feat of playing her ownmad grandmother, imbuing Hannah Chaplin with a wrenching combination of wounded maternalism and addled propriety.
It cited Penn State's "excessive focus on athletics" and showed how under Paterno, a football-mad university created its own insular, reality distortion field, one in which to "avoid the consequences of bad publicity, " facts were brushed away and concealed.