Director : John Patrick Shanley
Release Date : 25 December 2008 (USA)
Genre : Drama, Mystery
Cast : Meryl Streep as Sister Aloysius Beauvier, Philip Seymour Hoffman as Father Brendan Flynn, Amy Adams as Sister James, Viola Davis as Mrs. Miller, Alice Drummond as Sister Veronica, Audrie J. Neenan as Sister Raymond (as Audrie Neenan), Susan Blommaert as Mrs. Carson, Carrie Preston as Christine Hurley, John Costelloe as Warren Hurley, Lloyd Clay Brown as Jimmy Hurley, Joseph Foster as Donald Miller (as Joseph Foster II), Bridget Megan Clark as Noreen Horan, Mike Roukis as William London, Haklar Dezso as Zither Player, Frank Shanley as Kevin
Plot : Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him of abusing a black student. He denies the charges, and much of the play’s quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority.
Run Time : 104 min
Country : USA
MPAA : Rated PG-13 for thematic material.
Language : English
Filming Locations : College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Company : Goodspeed Productions
Trivia : Oprah Winfrey reportedly lobbied for the role of Mrs. Miller, but John Patrick Shanley refused to even give her a reading.
Goofs : Anachronisms: A Wurlitzer electric piano model 200 or 200A appears in the dance class and the Christmas pageant rehearsal scenes. Neither the model 200 (1968) nor the 200A (1975) were in production in 1964.
Tag Lines : There is no evidence. There are no witnesses. But for one, there is no doubt.
Plot Summary : It’s 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the schools’ strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James, a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.
Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx, it centers on a nun who grows suspicious when a priest begins taking too much interest in the life of a young black student. Is she being overly protective or not protective enough? And can she work within the system to discover the truth?
In 1964 a Catholic elementary school has just admitted its first Black student, a 12-year-old boy transferred from public school. The principal, a rigid disciplinarian nun, and the liberal parish priest are both concerned for the boy’s welfare in a predominantly Irish/Italian school. The nun becomes convinced that the priest has, or is planning to have, an improper relationship with the child and is determined to force him to leave the school. A third compassionate person is the boy’s mother, who has another point of view. The fourth person is a young teacher who is concerned but confused by the conflict between the nun and the priest.
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