First off, full disclosure, reviewing documentaries isn’t my forte. Most of the writing I do tends to have at least an attempt at humor. But there really isn’t anything funny when looking back at the tragedy of Lawrence Phillips life. The ninety minute Showtime doc chronicles Phillips’ life, from his difficult upbringing in state institutions all the way to his death in a jail cell earlier this year.
Early on in the doc, a reporter who had written often about Lawrence noted that in his exhaustive research he was unable to find even a single photograph of Lawrence as a child.