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Spotlight is a 2015 film directed by Tom McCarthy. It tells the Real Life story of the investigative team of the Boston Globe during the early 2000s as they researched and released the first major report on sex abuse in the Catholic Church, a series which won them the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2003.
Trivia. All-Star Cast: Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Brian d'Arcy James, John Slattery, Liev Schreiber, Billy Crudup, Len Cariou and Stanley Tucci. This is a stellar cast.
Spotlight has been critically acclaimed, and has been included in many critics' Top Ten Films of 2015 lists. The film has received over 100 industry and critics awards and nominations. The American Film Institute selected Spotlight as one of the Top Ten Films of the year.
Feb 5, 2024 · This complicates the Spotlight investigation because non-observant Catholic members are awed by the Church while lapsed members are enraged by it, so their ability to objectively look into the allegations is clouded.
Oct 26, 2015 · The film is often straightforward and hard-hitting. But it plays out all the usual tropes of the investigative-journalism genre – the hot tips...
Nov 5, 2015 · Boston, with its confusing colonial-era streets and church spires jutting into the sky on practically every corner, is the soul of the movie. "Spotlight" feels local. "Spotlight" also shows a deeper truth, the level of psychological trauma brought on by abuse, not just to the victims, but to horrified Catholics everywhere.
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The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.