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Doubt
- Director: John Patrick Shanley
- Writer: John Patrick Shanley
- Producer: Celia D. Costas; Mark Roybal
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It's all about suspicion - with or without foundation.
Shanley manages to manipulate his audience into a bewildering world of colliding sympathies.
And then, there's Viola Davis - in her very brief and Oscar nominated role - she absolutely decimates everything that has gone on before - she has experienced every inequality, every cruelty and still she can turn a blind eye - for her son and only for her son - heartbreaking.
The most important issue that is addressed and never resolved - does an innocent man crumble under accusations or does he fight?
Think: Friedman, Jackson.
A film that makes you think - just remember the subject - what would you do?
When in doubt...accuse!
Mind-blowing stuff.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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. 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 consequences.
Cast & Characters
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;
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;
Mike Roukis as William London;
Haklar Dezso as Zither Player;
Frank Shanley as Kevin;
Robert Ridgell as Organist