Title: Spotlight
Original Title: Spotlight
Year: 2015
Info
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- Length: 129 Minutes (2 hours 9 min)
- Budget: $20,000,000
- Genre: Biography Drama History
- Studios: Open Road Films Anonymous Content
- Distributor: eOne Films
- Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)
Release Dates
- UK: January 29 2016
- United States: November 25 2015
Plot
'Spotlight' tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world?s oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper?s tenacious ?Spotlight? team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment, touching off a wave of revelations around the world. Directed by Academy Award-nominee Tom McCarthy (co-writer of 'Up'), 'Spotlight' is a tense investigative thriller, tracing the steps to one of the biggest crime stories in modern times.
Awards
- 2016 Academy Awards (Oscars): 6 2
- 2016 Golden Globes: 3 0
- 2016 BAFTA Awards: 4 1
Cast
Director:
Mike Rezendes
Sacha Pfeiffer
Walter 'Robby' Robinson
Marty Baron
Ben Bradlee Jr.
Matt Carroll
Mitchell Garabedian
Videos
October 17 2015
Photos
Trivia
Matt Damon was considered for the role of Michael Rezendes which went to Mark Ruffalo.
The real Walter Robinson said on michael Keaton ''It is like watching yourself in a mirror, yet having no control of the mirror image''.
The screen typography (for credits, title cards) is set in Miller, the typeface that the Globe uses for most headlines and body copy.
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