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Liev Schreiber, Stanley Tucci, and Billy Crudup are excellent.
Mark Ruffalo and Michael Keaton (stage name!) are a little contorted playing Bostonians; Rachel McAdams’ character is a cliche’; there’s the colleague who is the family guy; the church boosters are predictable too.
It is a massive story (albeit one that is slightly old). The movie speaks a bit to the role and responsibility of major newspapers but that too is dated. Still, the role of a muckraker…
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1895587/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sipe
Ben Bradlee, Jr. is the son of Ben Bradlee.
http://www.wired.com/2015/11/spotlight-journalism-movies/