Yet the film tells the story from the point of view of the investigative journalists: editors Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) and Walter Robinson (Michael Keaton), reporters Mike Resendiz (Mark Ruffalo), Sacha Pfeifer (Rachel McAdams), and Matt Carroll (Brian d’Arcy James). The revelations struck a personal chord, especially in families raised as Catholic. Now, for the first time, in a very public manner, the unspoken suspicions of sexual abuse within the Church were out in the open. 11 terrorist attacks, the Boston Globe investigative journalism team known as “Spotlight” began publishing a series of reports detailing the number of priests who had molested children, and the local Archdiocese and Catholic Church’s role in insuring that the cases never came to light. According to entertainment blogs such as, the film was rejected by studios because of its unflinching portrayal of Boston’s Archdiocese and its role in covering up child molestation cases throughout the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. And it’s a film that should be seen.ĭirected by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer, “Spotlight” remained on the screenplay blacklist for several years. The win has helped extend the film showing in theaters across the nation. The film tells the true story of a team of investigative journalists from Boston who in 2002 exposed the Catholic Archdiocese’s cover-up of hundreds of cases of child molestation.īut the film also documents the beginning of a monumental change in the industry of journalism that could threaten our ability to search for truth in a corrupt society. This year’s Oscar for best picture went to “Spotlight,” a film that was so controversial it had trouble getting the green light to be produced. Movie Review, Edgardo Cervano-Soto | Image, Open Road Films
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