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  1. Nov 4, 2015 · The Spotlight true story reveals that at the end of July 2001, Globe editor Marty Baron (portrayed by Liev Schreiber in the movie) insisted on further pursuing a column written by Eileen McNamara, which reported on lawsuits pertaining to a priest allegedly involved in sexual abuse.

  2. Sep 29, 2019 · Directed by Todd McCarthy from a script by McCarthy and Josh Singer, Spotlight is about the Boston Globe investigative reporting team that exposed the widespread systemic sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Boston.

  3. Initially believing that they are following the story of one priest who was moved to new assignments several times, the Spotlight team begins to uncover a pattern of sexual abuse by other priests in Massachusetts and an ongoing cover-up by the Boston Archdiocese.

  4. Nov 6, 2022 · The story is loosely based on the real Catholic Archdiocese of Boston abuse scandal that received widespread attention in 2002, when The Boston Globe published the results of an...

  5. Jan 27, 2016 · Now 14 years later, the film adaptation of the Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation is the subject of the Oscar-nominated star-studded drama, Spotlight . With many of its subjects still...

  6. Dec 10, 2021 · The film's story is true, and centers on the journalists who faced a series of obstacles and threats as they took on one of the most powerful men in American Catholicism, the archbishop of Boston.

  7. Nov 20, 2015 · Spotlight: Directed by Tom McCarthy. With Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber. 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.