Spotlight

Boston newsroom, early morning, fluorescent lights humming. Reporters dig through documents, a pattern of abuse emerges, a church's secrets begin to unravel. McCarthy grounds a scandal in the minutiae of journalistic legwork.

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Spotlight was released in 2015 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 129 minutes.