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Doubt

Doubt

DRAMA / BLU-RAY
  • Rated PG-13
Directed by John Patrick Shanley
Written by Based On The Stage Play By John Patrick Shanley - Written For The Screen By John Patrick Shanley

Cast

Meryl Streep [Sister Aloysius Beauvier]
Philip Seymour Hoffman [Father Brendan Flynn]
Amy Adams [Sister James]
Viola Davis [Mrs. Miller]
Alice Drummond [Sister Veronica]
Audrie Neenan [Sister Raymond]
Susan Blommaert [Mrs. Carson]
Carrie Preston [Christine Hurley]
John Costelloe [Warren Hurley]
Lloyd Clay Brown [Jimmy Hurley]
Joseph Foster II [Donald Miller]
Mike Roukis [William London]
Haklar Dezso [Zither Player]
Frank Shanley [Kevin]
Robert Ridgell [Organist]

Genres

What happens?

From Miramax Films comes one of the most honored and acclaimed motion pictures of the year, DOUBT. Based on the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play, DOUBT is a mesmerizing, suspense-filled drama with four riveting performances from Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis that will have you pinned to the edge of your seat. Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Streep), the rigid and fear-inspiring principal of the Saint Nicholas Church School, suffers an extreme dislike for the progressive and popular parish priest Father Flynn (Hoffman). Looking for wrongdoing in every corner, Sister Aloysius believes she's uncovered the ultimate sin when she hears Father Flynn has taken a special interest in a troubled boy. But without proof, the only thing certain is doubt. Nominated for 5 Academy Awards(R) and 6 Critics' Choice awards, there is no DOUBT it is "One of the best pictures of the year," (USA Today, Rolling Stone, New York Post).

In depth

Doubt: Magnificent Adaptation

Doubt: Magnificent Adaptation

By Peter Howell
Toronto Star
Excerpt
December 12, 2008

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself," says the FDR quote neatly written on a nun's blackboard, but the corrosive piety of Doubt presents a far more insidious threat.

In magnificently adapting his award-w... more