Jose Canseco: The Truth Hurts

It took 16 years for baseball owners, fans and the media to make Jose Canseco. It took them less than an hour to destroy him...No Figure in recent sports history has been as polarizing as Jose Canseco. Millions of baseball fans remember him as a powerhouse slugger with the speed and agility to accomplish one of sport's rare statistics - 40/40, 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a single season. But millions more remember him as a whistleblower whose admission to steroid use exposed a scandal that over-shadowed his own remarkable 16- year major league career, and led to congressional hearings that cast a pall over America's greatest pastime- baseball. In this new documentary film written by Bill McAdams, Jr., Canseco addresses some of the most controversial questions surrounding his life and his career. What emerges is a nuanced portrait of a man driven by grief and a promise that cost him a great deal more than he ever anticipated. Only time will tell whether history will remember Jose Canseco as a legend, a whistleblower, or a scapegoat, but this candid documentary will leave audiences convinced of one inescapable fact: The Truth Hurts.