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Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The film follows The Boston Globe 's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into a decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by numerous priests of the Roman ...
Nov 20, 2015 · A film about the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the child molestation and cover-up scandal in the Catholic Church. See cast, crew, reviews, trivia, awards, and more on IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Tom McCarthy
- 2015-11-20
This critically acclaimed film chronicles the true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered a decades-long cover-up of child abuse within the local Catholic Archdiocese. 8,976 IMDb 8.1 2 h 3 min 2015. X-Ray R. Drama · Compelling · Emotional · Intense.
Apr 16, 2024 · Spotlight, American fact-based dramatic film, released in 2015, that won two Academy Awards, including that for best picture. The movie chronicles the efforts of a team of Boston Globe journalists to bring to light the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests in Boston. Spotlight opens with a prologue set in a police station in Boston ...
- Pat Bauer
In 2001, editor Marty Baron of The Boston Globe assigns a team of journalists to investigate allegations against John Geoghan, an unfrocked priest accused of molesting more than 80 boys. Led by ...
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- Tom Mccarthy
- R
- Mark Ruffalo
The atmosphere is very "Boston": having a beer on the back porch in the dead of winter or arguing about work over hot dogs at Fenway. 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 ...
The film closes with a list of places in the United States and around the world where the Catholic Church has been involved in concealing abuse by priests. By December 2002, The Spotlight team published 600 stories of abuse by 249 priests in Boston alone. Cardinal Law resigned in December 2002.
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