---
title: 'Spotlight (2015)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Tom McCarthy'
released: '2015-09-03'
runtime_minutes: 127
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/spotlight-2015'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1895587/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Spotlight (2015)

2015 · R · 127 min · Drama, History · United States


## Synopsis

Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The film follows The Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into a decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by numerous priests of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Although the plot was original, it is based on a series of stories by the Spotlight team that earned The Globe the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The film features an ensemble cast including Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Brian d'Arcy James, Liev Schreiber, and Billy Crudup.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Tom McCarthy](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-mccarthy)
- **Screenplay:** [Tom McCarthy](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-mccarthy), [Josh Singer](https://cinepixo.com/people/josh-singer)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Howard Shore](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-shore)
- **Producer:** [Blye Pagon Faust](https://cinepixo.com/people/blye-pagon-faust)
- **Director of Photography:** [Masanobu Takayanagi](https://cinepixo.com/people/masanobu-takayanagi)
- **Editor:** [Tom McArdle](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-mcardle)

## Cast

- [Neal Huff](https://cinepixo.com/people/neal-huff) as Phil Saviano
- [Billy Crudup](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-crudup) as Eric MacLeish
- [Liev Schreiber](https://cinepixo.com/people/liev-schreiber) as Martin Baron
- [John Slattery](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-slattery) as Ben Bradlee Jr.
- [Gene Amoroso](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-amoroso) as Stephen Kurkjian
- [Stanley Tucci](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-tucci) as Mitchell Garabedian
- [David Fraser](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-fraser) as John Albano
- [Rachel McAdams](https://cinepixo.com/people/rachel-mcadams) as Sacha Pfeiffer
- [Jamey Sheridan](https://cinepixo.com/people/jamey-sheridan) as Jim Sullivan
- [Len Cariou](https://cinepixo.com/people/len-cariou) as Bernard Francis Law
- [Brian d'Arcy James](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-d-arcy-james)
- [Mark Ruffalo](https://cinepixo.com/people/mark-ruffalo) as Michael Rezendes
- [Richard Jenkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-jenkins) as Richard Sipe
- [Paul Guilfoyle](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-guilfoyle) as Peter Conley
- [Maureen Keiller](https://cinepixo.com/people/maureen-keiller) as Eileen McNamara

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Official site: http://spotlightthefilm.com/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/spotlight-2015
Film facts: Wikidata (Q18154496); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.