Spotlight (2015) on Netflix
Marty Baron, the Boston Globe's new editor, asks the Spotlight team to look into a priest accused of molesting children. Robby Robinson, Sacha Pfeiffer and Matt Carroll take the case.
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Plot summary
In July 2001, Marty Baron arrives as the Boston Globe's new editor and pushes the paper's Spotlight investigative unit, Robby Robinson, Mike Rezendes, Sacha Pfeiffer and Matt Carroll, to revisit the case of Father John Geoghan, a priest accused of molesting children in several parishes. Mitchell Garabedian, the lawyer for the victims, claims that Cardinal Bernard Law learned of the abuse years before and let it continue; the cardinal denies it. The team wants the court records Garabedian says back his claim, but the files are sealed. Garabedian is wary of reporters, many victims fear being named, and the archdiocese carries weight in the city.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Spotlight (2015)
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- Bryan Cranston was offered an unspecified role in Spotlight but turned it down because of scheduling conflicts with The Infiltrator (2016), and he later expressed regret for turning the film down.
- Spotlight won Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay from six Oscar nominations, becoming the first Best Picture winner since The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) to take home only one other Academy Award.
- The opening police-station scene was shot at a former Toronto police station on Mavety Street, and the old Boston Globe newsroom interior, where the bulk of filming took place, was rebuilt inside a former Sears building in Toronto.
- Open Road Films said in a March 15, 2016, statement that Spotlight contained fictionalized dialogue attributed to Jack Dunn and that he was not part of the Archdiocesan cover-up; Dunn said he felt vindicated and able to move forward with his reputation intact.
- At the time of its Best Picture win, Spotlight had made $39.2 million in North America, making it, adjusted for ticket-price inflation, the second lowest-grossing Best Picture winner within four decades after The Hurt Locker, which took $17 million.
