Spotlight
2015 film directed by Tom McCarthy · Released September 3, 2015
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.
Cast ages when filming began (September 24, 2014)
- Mark Ruffalo, as Michael Rezendes: 46
- Michael Keaton, as Walter "Robby" Robinson: 63
- Rachel McAdams, as Sacha Pfeiffer: 35
- Liev Schreiber, as Marty Baron: 46
- John Slattery, as Ben Bradlee Jr: 52
- Stanley Tucci, as Mitchell Garabedian: 53
- Len Cariou, as Cardinal Bernard Law: 74
- Paul Guilfoyle, as Peter Conley: 65
- Jamey Sheridan, as Jim Sullivan: 63
- Brian d'Arcy James, as Matt Carroll: 46
- Billy Crudup, as Eric MacLeish: 46
- Michael Countryman, as Richard Gilman: 59
- Laurie Heineman, as Judge Constance Sweeney: 66
- Richard Jenkins, as Richard Sipe: 67
- David Fraser, as Jon Albano: 56