Gleason (2016 film)

Gleason
Directed by	Clay Tweel
Produced by	Kimi Culp Scott Fujita Seth Gordon Mary Rohlich Kevin Lake
Starring	Steve Gleason
Cinematography	Sean Pamphilon Ty Minton-Small David Lee
Edited by	Clay Tweel Brian Palmer
Music by	Saul Simon MacWilliams Dan Romer
Production companies	Dear Rivers Productions IMG Films
Distributed by	Amazon Studios Open Road Films
Release dates	January 23, 2016 (2016-01-23) (Sundance) July 29, 2016 (2016-07-29) (US)
Running time	111 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$583,664[1]

Gleason is an American documentary film which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. It covers five years in the life of the former New Orleans Saints football defensive back Steve Gleason, who has Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), sometimes known as Lou Gehrig's disease, a rare incurable neurodegenerative condition associated with the former New York Yankees baseball star Lou Gehrig, who died from the disease in 1941.