Spotlight 2015 10th Anniversary Edition 4K UHD
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Spotlight tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper’s tenacious “Spotlight” team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal and government establishments, setting off a wave of revelations around the world. Directed by Academy Award nominee Tom McCarthy (Best Original Screenplay, Up, 2009), Spotlight is a tense investigative thriller, tracing the steps to one of the biggest crime stories in modern times. Spotlight 2015 10th Anniversary Edition 4K UHD
Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, and Rachel McAdams lead a critically acclaimed cast in this gripping true story about the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation that uncovered a scandal that rocked one of the world’s oldest and most trusted institutions. Delving into allegations of child abuse within the local Catholic Archdiocese, a tenacious team of Boston Globe reporters exposes a decades-long cover-up that reaches the highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment. “Brilliantly acted and flawlessly directed” (New York Post), Spotlight is a powerful and riveting drama the critics are calling “the All the President’s Men of our time” (Los Angeles Times). Spotlight 2015 10th Anniversary Edition 4K UHD
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| MPAA rating : | R (Restricted) |
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| Package Dimensions : | 1 x 1 x 1 inches; 7.04 ounces |
| Director : | Tom McCarthy |
| Media Format : | 4K, Subtitled |
| Run time : | 2 hours and 8 minutes |
| Release date : | November 11, 2025 |
| Actors : | Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams |
| Studio : | SHOUT! FACTORY |
| ASIN : | B0FNBQVT7J |
| Number of discs : | 2 |
| Best Sellers Rank: | #33 in Drama Blu-ray Discs |
| Customer Reviews: | (9,276) |
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Turnip –
Dads
Inspiring on how NOT to turn a blind eye to abuse and two eyes and a compassionate heart to single mothers and their children who are desperate finding a good character role model and mentor. A double life changing betrayal of innocence with no consequences for the monster.
Christina Reynolds –
expertly crafted, expertly researched, and expertly contained
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏!𝑰𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖,𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒆,𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒖𝒔!The topic of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests in the United States was first formally publicized in 1985 when a Louisiana priest pleaded guilty to 11 counts of molestation of young boys.A study conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice )which analyzed these allegations of sexual abuse from 1950 to 2002) indicated that over this span of time 11,000 allegations had been made against 4,390 priests (which is approximately 4% of these priests) in the United States.To read this report and its subsequent findings please refer to this link:https://www.bishop-accountability.org/reports/2004_02_27_JohnJay/index.htmlSpotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. It film follows The Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into cases of widespread and systemic child sex abuse in the Boston area by numerous Roman Catholic priests. 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, and Stanley Tucci, with Brian d’Arcy James, Liev Schreiber, and Billy Crudup in supporting roles.Covering the span of approximately 30 years worth of interactions ‘Spotlight’ is in the perfect position to be considerably incomprehensible; with the exception of some dialogue centered around name drops (𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔 🙄) and those in which characters are expected to read between the lines Singer and McCarthys’ writing and direction makes for an investigation that is gripping and easily digested. Still a tough pill to swallow regardless: there is a deeply intimate intermingling of elements throughout that threatens convolution, but the networks of communication and their subsequent influence on the main conflict are maintained as priorities. At times there are characteristics that seem persistently internalized (like motivation), the lack of cognizance in these regards doesn’t distract from the bigger picture at hand.In preparation for their specific roles both Keaton and Ruffalo met with their real life counterparts (Walter Robinson and Michael Rezendes, respectively). The interviews conducted between them happened over the course of several months (with both Robinson and Resendez often on set) and involved lengthy attempts at replicating and adapting their various patterns of behavior (including vocal patterns!). Their subsequent representations on-screen were reacted to approvingly and they went as far as separately agreeing that watching Ruffalo and Keaton was “like looking into a mirror”. What’s most impressive is the humbling dramatization of their performances and the fact that they remain statically dignifying: they never rise above the seriousness of the enclosed subject matter while still packing a punch. As equally important is the presence of those representing victims interviewed – with Jimmy LeBlanc being an actual survival of clergy abuse- and the extent at which they deliver dialogue that is both tear worthy and contextually insightful.Due to the fidelity to its subject matter and commitment to authenticity this is the first movie to win the prestige of a Veritas Award. This devotion goes above and beyond flashy aesthetics and gritty screenplay through the use of reporters (including those from 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒍𝒐𝒃𝒆 itself) being regularly referred to for their input regarding artistic and alternatively pragmatic related decisions. As a result of this sensitive pieces of information are leafed through, but they’re parsimonious summaries are executed without sacrificing the overarching integrity of ‘Spotlight’ as a whole. It is worth noting that some characters have been noted as being misrepresented (like Paquin’s openness to admitting to abusing anybody being exaggerated and happening much earlier than it did in real life), but these alterations elaborate on the systematic nature of this investigation and the enormity of roadblocks compromising its success.Me? I have no way of personally connecting to scandals regarding sexual abuse happening within the context of a religious institution, but ‘Spotlight’ makes no presumptions about its audience to the point of apathy or indifference. This certainly isn’t the most exciting watch, but it’s expertly crafted, expertly researched, and expertly contained.Above all else: any film tackling a culture of silence in this regard has my utmost gratitude, and the Vatican recently announcing the appointment of a tribunal in an attempt to hold accused Bishops accountable speaks to the transformative nature of films like this that are often hiding in plain sight.For those of you out there struggling with this form of exploitation I always like to explicitly say that I am here for you.That I don’t need to live your truth to enthusiastically engage with it.That your truth is always worth listening to: I guarantee that For anyone interested in knowing more about clergy abuse and to anyone that needs to file a report please refer to the following resources as necessary:https://www.camdendiocese.org/clergysexabuseresources/https://reportbishopabuse.org/
24 people found this helpful
Paul G. –
Stay Angry!!!
I remember the first time I saw this movie. I remember being drawn along in the story as it unfolded and how I became angrier and angrier. Mike’s blow up scene (Ruffalo should have won an Oscar) was very much felt and was a confirmation of what I felt as well.Like the build up in the movie, every subsequent viewing has made me angrier and angrier. This is a very important movie and the story must be told and you must watch this every few years so you do not forget. As shown at the end of the movie, this was not just Cardinal Law and the Boston diocese, it is a worldwide issue. You can not tell me that this was hidden from the Pope. The church STILL does not cooperate with the authorities and it is STILL happening. You know it too.
One person found this helpful
Maya –
Great movie about Boston Priest scandal
Great movie about an important topic. Haven’t seen any other movie cover this subject so in depth
Nathanael Timbs –
Unapologetic and Thought Provoking
(Overall Feelings-/Quick Review at Bottom)As someone who has dealt first hand with the abuse that is riddled into the Religious/Church system(through all denominations), this was a tough one to watch. In the end I am glad that I did it was very well acted and did an amazing job. It brought to light the darker part of things that we would love to choose to ignore. Though I have nothing against religion, even after the things I have had to deal with. It is things like this that we need, even though it is a movie, that calls people to take responsibility for their actions, and shines a light on the disease riddled sections of life that need to be cured.Overall FeelingsGreat movie, might be hard to watch for people that have had to live through this trauma, but also makes you feel seen and honestly understood and that you don’t have to be ashamed for what was done to you. I suggest anyone that can handle the content to watch the movie, even if you are religious or not. A good dose or hard truth and dark reality is always good to make sure we continue to strive to be the best we can be, and cut out the parts that are decomposed
5 people found this helpful
Katie –
Awesome
Great movie! Awesome cast. Would rent again.
RobertaMc –
It’s hard to watch, but so good, and so important
I had this movie in my Netflix queue for well over a year, and then I guess it disappeared because Amazon claimed it. I could never get myself to watch it, because I knew it would be hard to watch.Though I am far beyond being a lapsed Catholic–really even questioning the existence of any god, let alone the one I learned about from birth–something kept me from seeing this since the film was made. We had two Franciscan priests in my mother’s family, and we were very active supporting the teen center, held in a parish building, for several years. Two seminarians attached to the parish worked closely with my mother, and then both my parents, as the family mounted a production of a musical that would have its premiere in my small city, to benefit the teen center.Though nothing about the teen center or the show was restricted to Catholics, those seminarians and several other clergy worked with all of us to put on the show and support the teen center. Because my family was very social and I guess pretty unusual, due to our involvement in theater and music, the seminarians were happy to come to dinners and parties at our house. They and one other seminarian treated our house as a second home, which was fine with us. They were great guys. We attended the ceremonies where they became deacons and later their ordinations as priests.As time passed and my family moved out of that small city and broke up, we all lost lose touch. But one evening, when I was out of college and working as a cocktail waitress at a restaurant, my mother called and asked me to go over to her house when I finished my shift. It was an early shift, so I didn’t get there very late, but when I did, the priest (one of the “boys” I’ll call “G”) who was visiting had already had quite a bit to drink.Mom was so excited to have him visiting. She left us downstairs as she went searching for some photos from that era, and G was pouring himself another drink. I went to put the kettle on for myself, and I was appalled when he cornered me in the kitchen and stuck his tongue down my throat, along with going crazy with his hands. I pushed him away, saying something like, “Jesus, G! What the hell?” I’d never seen “the boys” as more than guys not much older than my brother who had gone into the priesthood. And G had never struck me as particularly holy, though I had felt a level of commitment to the calling from the other seminarians.Mom found her photos, and we spent the rest of G’s visit remembering some very happy times. He and I left Mom’s house at the same time, and even though it was a 50-50 chance he’d be pulled over for a DUI, it was 1980, and even someone as drunk as he was wouldn’t have any penalties attached to the stop. After all, he was a local boy and a priest–decked out in his black suit and dog collar.As the stories about priests molesting and raping children started to come out, my Catholic friends and I talked about our experiences with priests and nuns throughout our lives. I had attended Catholic elementary school, not Catholic high school, but happily ended up at a Catholic college, where I made friends I have to this day. One friend was not himself abused, but he knew of its happening to younger kids he’d attended Catholic elementary school with and some at his Catholic high school, while he was there.No matter that I had lost most faith in the religion, there were priests and especially nuns whom I loved and respected, especially for their commitment to teaching and their students. I never heard of a sexually abusive sister, but I knew of physically abusive nuns, and was on the receiving end of some heavy verbal abuse from one when I was in sixth grade. But I got “vibes” from some priests. Just that there was something “wrong” about them. It was the same feeling that several of my cousins and I had about an uncle, which we only ever discussed well after we were adults.It’s almost a cliche that men in authority are as likely as not to abuse that authority, and when it’s a boss, that’s hard enough to deal with. What about those children whose families–broken or just not functioning well–who have believed that the priest giving them attention they crave couldn’t and wouldn’t hurt them? What an incredible betrayal of trust to have something that doesn’t feel right and you know ISN’T right done to you by someone who should have only helped, never harmed you.I no longer have any clergy in my life, and I’m just as glad that I don’t. I don’t know how I would be able to have a conversation with them about this abuse–which isn’t gone, by any means, because the Catholic church believes itself to be inviolate as an institution–and hear anything less than utter condemnation from them. Religion has never protected its believers from the harm itself propagates, whether spiritual, emotional, physical, or financial. That’s because people are involved, and some of them have power of others. And that’s all it takes, really. Power makes people feel entitled, and entitled people will too often abuse their power.
15 people found this helpful
Mike Powers –
“Spotlight” handles its harrowing subject with great sensitivity and skill.
“Spotlight” is the Academy Award winning (Best Picture, Best Screenplay, 2015) film that depicts the efforts of the special investigations unit at the Boston Globe newspaper to uncover and report on the Catholic church sex abuse scandals in Boston during the last three-plus decades of the 20th century. Simply put, this is one of the best movies I’ve seen in the past 20 years.In 2001, the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team is persuaded by Martin Baron, the newspaper’s newly appointed managing editor, to begin an in-depth review of a handful of known cases of child sex abuse by Catholic priests. Baron wonders if these are isolated incidents perpetrated by a few rogue priests, or if there is a larger, systemic problem that involves not only the pedophile priests, but also a church hierarchy that may be covering up these priest’s sexual abuse of children.The Spotlight team’s four members – Walter (Robby) Robinson (Editor), Sacha Pfeiffer, Mike Rezendes, and Matt Carroll – begin their year-long investigation. Each of them doggedly pursue their own leads. They dig into archived articles; they interview victims, lawyers, and church officials; and they research legal documents. At first slowly and haltingly, then more steadily, they begin unearthing new information that confirms Martin Baron’s worst fears: the Catholic Diocese of Boston is indeed beset by an immense scandal that involves not only dozens of pedophile priests, but also a diocesan hierarchy that for decades had systematically covered up the crimes of these priests.“Spotlight” manages to handle its exceptionally emotional subject matter with tremendous skill and sensitivity. I think the biggest reason it works so well is because Tom McCarthy and Josh Singer, the film’s writers and producers, resisted the temptation to turn “Spotlight” into an overwrought melodrama. Instead, “Spotlight” is presented as quiet procedural in which a small cadre of superbly professional journalists go about their daily work of uncovering their gut-wrenching story with little fuss or fanfare. “Spotlight’s” harrowing subject matter ensures the tension and suspense that permeates nearly every minute of the film. The beautifully written screenplay and the uniformly brilliant performances from the ensemble cast that includes Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Mark Ruffalo, and John Slattery, make this perhaps the best film about journalists ever made. Most highly recommended.
6 people found this helpful
prisrob –
Turning A Blind Eye
‘Spotlight’ was one of the most riveting films I have seen this year. I viewed the film while my tea got cold, my dinner waited, because I had to see the end. Of course, I knew the end, I live in New England, and I remember these days, but how the story was born, the reporters and the Spotlight portion of the Boston Globe just entranced me.The Globe has a great reputation and when a new Editor in Chief, Marty Baron, played by Liev Schreiber, comes to the Globe he is looking for a story that will garner more readers and will prove to in Boston’s best interests. And, did he get what he wanted and more. Walter Robinson, played by Michael Keaton, is a superb newspaper man, a leads this elite group of four journalists who can carve out a side of history. What Baron found was a small story about a priest abusing children, he suggested this avenue. The group, at first reluctant, fell into this story full force, working around the clock, this team was the best.The reporters included Mike Rezendes, played by Mark Ruffalo, and Ruffalo gives this role everything he has, superb. Sacha Pfeiffer, played by Rachel McAdams, another fabulous actor,and Matt Carroll, played by Brian d’Arcy James. The editor at the time, Ben Bradlee, Jr., played by John Slattery, is the most reluctant to pursue the story, but he was quickly initiated. As the team finds clues, interviews victims, lawyers and the like, the entire story unfolds. This is a systematic cover up of abuse of thousands of children, at least by 70 Priests in Boston, and it spread throughout the world. It is sickening to think this abuse went on for years and priests were moved from parish to parish, lives destroyed, millions paid out to the victims. The Catholic Church was culpable and turned a blind eye, it is very difficult to understand this folly. Why the Church is still standing is a testament to someone’s faith.Such a superb film in every area, storyline, directing, music, and the actors. A true story come to life.Highly Recommended. prisrob 02-23-16
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R. Smith –
WOW–BRILLIANT FILM–WATCH IMMEDIATELY
The first thing that must be said about this movie: Thank God for the First Amendment and for the Fourth Estate. I am so grateful to the hard-working journalists who have brought these stories about clerical sexual abuse to light in Boston and all the other places.Second, what a brilliant film. Tight script with incredible acting by so many, including Ruffalo (who normally annoys me in other roles), Keaton (who is just amazing in this), McAdams, Schreiber, Tucci, and Slattery. Deserving of the awards it won at the Oscars for best picture and best screenplay. Would have been deserving for some actors to win too for their roles in this, but I realize those awards are not given in a vacuum–many other good competitors from other films. Nice score. And the costumes are beautiful.I like how it shows the real work of writing an investigative story. Just regular people in a certain way doing their job well–working on a hunch, working sources, solving problems together, making judgment calls.If you are looking for a film to watch right now, look no further–you have gold in your hands. An excellent, fun, important film.
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