UNITED STATES
Asia One
Run Time: 129 min
Classification: NC16
Genre: Investigative thriller
Grade: 3.5/5
How do you uncover a secret without getting overly emotionally involved, write a good story and do some people justice? Sounds like the job of a journalist? It certainly does.
Actor-director Mark Ruffalo had the challenging task of playing a journalist who broke a story that took the world by storm.
On Jan 6, 2002, The Boston Globe had published one of its biggest stories in history. It was time that people all around the world knew of a great sin in the history of the Catholic church.
Entitled “Church allowed abuse by priest for years”, the article was an investigative journalism piece done by the Spotlight team in the Globe.
Inspired by an actual event, the movie ‘Spotlight’ portrays the whole process of highlighting sexual crimes of the Catholic church, where several Catholic priests were accused of sexually abusing young boys in Boston over a period of 30 years.
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