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Doubt is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning 2004 stage play Doubt: A Parable. Produced by Scott Rudin, the film takes place in a Catholic elementary school named for St. Nicholas.
Dec 25, 2008 · Doubt: Directed by John Patrick Shanley. With Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis. A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student.
Dec 10, 2008 · A Catholic grade school could seem like a hermetically sealed world in 1964. That's the case with St. Nicholas in the Bronx, ruled by the pathologically severe principal Sister Aloysius, who keeps the students and nuns under her thumb and is engaged in an undeclared war with the new parish priest.
Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a charismatic priest, is advocating reform of the school's strict customs, and the first black student has just been accepted.
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A mesmerizing, suspensefilled drama elevated by four riveting Oscar-nominated performances from Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis, DOUBT will have you pinned to the edge of your seat.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school's strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear-based discipline.
Starring Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, ‘Doubt’ introduces us to Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the rigid and fear-inspiring principal of the Saint...
