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Nobody Reads The Fine Print DIsclaimer At The End Of The Closing Credits
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Everyone agrees that "Spotlight" is a great movie, a sure Oscar contender, and a true story... almost. See, in order to tell the story, some facts have been consolidated and attached to characters who, in real life, were not as the movie depicts. And that's a problem because for reasons only known to writer/director Tom McCarthy, instead of using the fictional composite characters to be the bad guys, he attached some of the bad stuff to real people, characters with the names of real people who were not, as the movie depicts, trying to obstruct the Boston Globe's investigation of abuse in the Catholic church. Can you imagine if you were portrayed in a hit movie as a bad guy, and the movie was billed as based on a true story? What would you do? (Boston Globe)
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