Spotlight
- Release Date
- November 6, 2015
- Director
- Tom McCarthy
- Cast
- Rachel McAdams , Mark Ruffalo , Liev Schreiber , Stanley Tucci , Michael Keaton , Billy Crudup
- Runtime
- 127
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Studio
- Open Road Films
- Writers
- Tom McCarthy , Josh Singer
- Tagline
- Break the story. Break the silence.
- Website
- http://SpotlightTheFilm.com
Summary
In 2001, the Boston Globe began an investigation that would rock the city and shock the world. SPOTLIGHT tells the story of that investigation, the story of Marty Baron (Schreiber), Ben Bradlee Jr. (Slattery) and the four members of the Globe’s investigative Spotlight team – Walter Robinson (Keaton), Mike Rezendes (Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeiffer (McAdams) and Matt Carroll (James) – who would sacrifice everything to expose the Boston Archdiocese’s systemic cover up of sexual abuse of children by ordained priests. For years, whispers of scandal were ignored by society, the media, by police and by the legal system. Silenced by shame, victims of sexual abuse often became victims of suicide. For their commitment to truth, the Spotlight team received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
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