Spotlight

[Brian in Mesa]

Spotlight

Release Date: November 6, 2015 (limited; expands: Nov. 13; wide: Nov. 20)
Studio: Open Road Films
Director: Tom McCarthy
MPAA Rating: R (for some language including sexual references)
Screenwriters: Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy
Genre: Drama
Website: Spotlightthefilm.com | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram

Starring: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Brian d'Arcy James, Billy Crudup

Plot Summary: Starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Brian d’Arcy James and Stanley Tucci, "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 delves 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, "Spotlight" is a tense investigative dramatic-thriller, tracing the steps to one of the biggest cover-ups in modern times.

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[FArting]

Saw this over the weekend. Movie is really good. I'm expecting this movie to win multiple awards at the Oscars.

 

[UncleChris]

98% (!!!) on R/t

 

[Cheesebeef]

Prob best movie of the year next to Mad Max. Really, really well done.

 

[Bert]

Ho lee crap that was about as well made a movie as I have ever seen. Brilliant, just brilliant.

Here's what I loved most about it. In this story its tempting to make the victims the focus but this movie stayed true to form. It kept the focus of the movie on the writing of this story. On the reporters who all stuck their necks out, under great pressure, knowing that if they got even one small part of the story wrong they could ruin everything they had worked for. How important the victims were to them. How important it was to them to get it right. The personal battles they had to fight along the way and the spiritual crisis it caused in all of them! It's not that the victims aren't the most important, it's just that we all kindof know that story at this point, this was about the shadow of shame and conformity that was cast over the people of the church back then and how this all remained the worst kept secret for so long.

The hours these people put in, the heart they showed. They were fighting the good fight and they didn't even know it at first.

The evolution of Keaton's character phenomenal. Really of all the characters. I just thought it was a really well made film that needed to get made.

I feel respect for everyone who was brave enough to come forward, tell their story and expose this evil for what it was. My heart breaks for the victims but I'm glad they finally got the hero they deserved in the Globe, an organization that was big enough to take this global.

 

[Bert]

Boom. Suck it Revenant!

 

[82CardsGrad]

Caught this on a plane yesterday. WOW! Tremendous movie about a truly sickening reality...

 

[Bada0Bing]

Ho lee crap that was about as well made a movie as I have ever seen. Brilliant, just brilliant.

Here's what I loved most about it. In this story its tempting to make the victims the focus but this movie stayed true to form. It kept the focus of the movie on the writing of this story. On the reporters who all stuck their necks out, under great pressure, knowing that if they got even one small part of the story wrong they could ruin everything they had worked for. How important the victims were to them. How important it was to them to get it right. The personal battles they had to fight along the way and the spiritual crisis it caused in all of them! It's not that the victims aren't the most important, it's just that we all kindof know that story at this point, this was about the shadow of shame and conformity that was cast over the people of the church back then and how this all remained the worst kept secret for so long.

The hours these people put in, the heart they showed. They were fighting the good fight and they didn't even know it at first.

The evolution of Keaton's character phenomenal. Really of all the characters. I just thought it was a really well made film that needed to get made.

I feel respect for everyone who was brave enough to come forward, tell their story and expose this evil for what it was. My heart breaks for the victims but I'm glad they finally got the hero they deserved in the Globe, an organization that was big enough to take this global.

Nice write up. Agreed, this movie was incredible. Film making doesn't get much better than this.