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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. The film stars Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and ...
- $50.9 million
- Howard Shore
- $20 million
- Scott Rudin
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.
- John Patrick Shanley
- 425
- 3 min
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. Their issues may seem to center around the reforms of Vatican II, then still under way, with ...
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Doubt (2008) Doubt (2008) Doubt (2008) View more photos Movie Info. Synopsis In 1964 the winds of change are sweeping through Sister Aloysius' (Meryl Streep) St. Nicholas school. Father Flynn ...
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- John Patrick Shanley
- PG-13
- Meryl Streep
The movie opens on a working class street in an Irish/Italian Catholic neighborhood in the Bronx, N.Y, circa 1964 The pre-title establishing shots are of a quiet church garden with statues of saints and angels, a Russian immigrant playing a zither, a boy named Jimmy (Lloyd Clay Brown) being awakened by his mother for Sunday mass and then the title, DOUBT.
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. 2,449 IMDb 7.5 1 h 43 min 2008. X-Ray PG-13. Drama · Downbeat · Emotional · Tense.