'Spotlight', trailer and posters for the drama about pedophilia scandal in the Catholic church.
Directed and co-written by Oscar-nominee Tom McCarthy, the highly-anticipated drama Spotlight premiered out of competition in Venice this month, before heading to Toronto as a Special Presentation. Mark Ruffalo and Michael Keaton star in the true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that rocked a city and one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions. Set in 2002, the film follows the dedicated members of the news team as they delve into allegations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, ultimately exposing a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment, and setting off a wave of revelations around the world.
Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Brian d’Arcy James and John Slattery also form part of the Globe’s Spotlight crew that spent a year interviewing victims and reviewing thousands of pages of documents. The tense trailer above provides our first glimpse of the challenges they faced and how the investigation escalated. Their reporting eventually led to the resignation of Cardinal Bernard Law, who had hidden years of serial abuse by other priests. For their efforts, they won the Pulitzer for Public Service in 2003. Stanely Tucci and Billy Crudup also star.
I mostly just care if Regina George gets an Oscar nom. She doesn't seem to care very much though and voters might choose someone else who is more thirsty for it.
My family subscribed to the Globe when Spotlight first broke the story and I remembered reading the first few back in February 2002 so this really left an impact on me.
I don't picture it winning much but it's a really accurate depiction of the investigative team at that time. I thought it was brilliant.
