Is Spotlight based on a true story?
Is Spotlight based on a true story? The new movie “Spotlight” has been nominated for the Golden Globes and is expected to gain an Oscar nomination in the new year. The critically-acclaimed film is based on the true story of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on the pedophile-priest scandal in the Catholic Church.
Is Spotlight available on Netflix?
A team of reporters and editors at the Boston Globe relentlessly investigate a shocking child molestation cover-up by the Catholic Church. Watch all you want.
How accurate is the film Spotlight?
Spotlight was also “extraordinarily faithful” to reality, despite some dramatisation. But it still only touches upon the drudgery and painstaking work behind the front-page reports. Two and a half minutes of drama in the film represents, as Robinson puts it, “three and a half weeks of hell”.