Spotlight (2015)
Director: Tom McCarthy.
Synopsis
2001: The determined staff of a leading newspaper in Boston, USA are made aware that a small number of Catholic priests in the city have been sexually abusing children in their parishes.
As their investigation peels away layer upon layer of evidence, they begin to reveal a massive cover-up involving not only the Church, but the law, local communities and the media itself.
Review by Jason Day
One of the 10 films up for Best Picture this year at the Oscar's, it looks to be a shoe-in for the top award in film-making.
Given the seriousness of the subject matter, the commitment of the cast to help shine a spotlight on the inner workings of investigative journalism and the production team for providing such a clean, linear story, it might well just win.
Perhaps the methodical, neat way the investigation progresses is too neat and too methodical, but it is hugely involving, drawing you right into the core of a horrific story as layer upon layer are peeled away.
Mark Ruffalo is passionate and explosive in the best role as a journalist who will stop at nothing to see the truth appear in print.
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Credits & cast
Producers: Blye Pagon Faust, Steve Golin, Nicole Rocklin, Michael Sugar. Writers: Howard Shore. Camera: Masanobu Takayanagi. Music: Howard Shore. Sets: Stephen H. Carter.
Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Live Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian D’arcy James, Stanley Tucci, Gene Amoroso, Doug Murray, Billy Crudup, Paul Guilfoyle.
