“Break the Story, Break the Silence” – the slogan of the 2015 crime drama film Spotlight – rings powerfully. Based on real events, Spotlight tells the story of a news team investigating widespread child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests in the Boston area.
The film gets its name from an investigative team on The Boston Globe called “Spotlight.” The Globe
hires a new editor for the team named Marty Baron. A column about a
lawyer named Mitchell Garabedian piques his interest in a case, in which
Garabedian says Cardinal Bernard Law knew that clergyman John Geoghan
was molesting children but did nothing to stop him. Baron and another
reporter, Michael Rezendes, push for the Spotlight team to investigate
this case that drew little press attention previously in the 1970’s.
