Rewatchables Reference

• Marty Baron's speech at the end: 'Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark...' (Bill's pick).
• The speakerphone call when they find out there could be 90 priests – the shot pulls back across the entire office (Chris's pick).
• Ruffalo's 'It's time' speech: 'It's time, Robbie. They knew and they let it happen to kids'.
• Baron telling the team to focus on the institution: 'Show me this was systemic, that it came from the top down'.
• Sasha finding priest Paquin who admits 'I never raped anyone' and then the school bus appears.

• The Howard Shore piano score – nod to Dave Grusin's All the President's Men score.
• Seeing Fenway Park in the Pedro era (pre-2004).
• Tucci's line: 'If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one'.
• Billy Crudup as the smarmy lawyer.
• The reporters leaving the Pulitzer out of the end credits (at the reporters' request).

• The Curse of the Bambino book getting a shout-out.
• The AOL Anywhere sign in front of the Globe.
• Stanley Tucci's wig.

Matt Damon almost got the Ruffalo/Mike Rezendes part – would have overpowered the movie in 2015.

Mark Ruffalo – 'They knew! They knew!' – he was the original namesake for this category on The Rewatchables.

• Jamey Sheridan as Jim the lawyer (Bill's pick).
• Brian d'Arcy James as the 4th 'Spotlight' reporter Matt Carroll – huge stage actor, not widely known in film.

• Billy Crudup – 3 scenes, makes the most of a nothing part; 'the most likable guy ever telling you to go fuck yourself'.
• Stanley Tucci also nominated.
• Patrick from Hyde Park/Jimmy LeBlanc – 1.5 scenes, crushes it.

• Casey Affleck in Brian d'Arcy James's role as the 4th 'Spotlight' reporter.
• Cole Hauser as an alternative for that same role.

• A visual blog rated the movie 76.2% for accuracy, which is apparently pretty good.
• Premiered at Venice Film Festival to huge applause – and laughter when the end revealed Cardinal Law was reassigned to honor in Rome.
• Tom McCarthy built the Globe set so accurately that real reporters gravitated to their actual desks.
• John Geoghan, the priest who got the ball rolling, was murdered by a cellmate in 2003.

• The Boston Globe – yes; they won the Pulitzer, the internet hasn't come for them yet.
• Liev Schreiber – yes; Ray Donovan going at the same time plus this movie.
• John Slattery – no, Mad Men is still his apex.
• Rachel McAdams – no, 'The Notebook' is her apex.
• Khakis – is there any film where khakis are more prominently worn?

• They compressed some timelines (the Paquin priest scene happened after the first story, not before).
• The Eric MacLeish character arc doesn't fully make sense: first protective, then it turns out he already mailed them the names.

Could be a 10-episode Netflix show – 'a tough hang, but it would probably be pretty good'.

• Did this movie make up for Tom McCarthy's crime against journalism as Scott Templeton on The Wire?
• Did Michael Keaton win the 2010s over Tom Hanks? (Birdman, 'Spotlight', The Founder vs. Hanks's weaker 2010s).

• Michael Keaton (Bill and Chris's pick) – 'keeps the tempo in this movie, just the perfect tone the entire time'.
• Mark Ruffalo (Russillo's pick) – 'awesome, single minded, he didn't care'.