First Image from Spotlight

By Eli Colon
It's Just Movies
March 8, 2015

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Last year, we heard about the drama “Spotlight,” the upcoming film from “Win Win” and “The Station Agent” director Tom McCarthy.

Co-written by McCarthy and “The West Wing” writer Josh Singer, the film focuses on the story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Bost Globe journalists who exposed the Catholic Church’s decades-long cover-up of child molestation in Massaschusetts. And based on its stellar cast alone, “Spotlight” should be on everyone’s radar, as it includes Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci, John Slattery, Brian d’Arcy James and Billy Crudup.

We really don’t get enough investigative journalism movies, and as the film’s press release notes, the film “points to the necessity of good, local journalism, the type of journalism that has been decimated over the past 15 years by the decline of the newspaper industry. ‘Spotlight’ explores the larger themes of complicity and deference, attempting to grapple with the question of how an evil so widespread could go undetected for so long.”

The film takes its title from the Spotlight Team of reporters who discovered this story and you can see them below in the first image from the film:

From left to right: Michael Keaton as Walter “Robby” Robinson, Spotlight Team editor; Liev Schreiber as Marty Baron, Boston Globe editor; Mark Ruffalo as Michael Rezendes, Boston Globe reporter; Rachel McAdams as Sacha Pfeiffer, Boston Globe reporter; John Slattery as Ben Bradlee, Jr., Boston Globe deputy managing editor; and Brian d’Arcy James as Matt Carroll, Boston Globe reporter.

There’s no official release date for “Spotlight” yet, but don’t be surprised to see it end up trying to compete in the awards race at the end of this year.