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Genres:
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Drama /
Mystery
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Release:
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Director:
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John Patrick Shanley
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Actors:
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Susan Blommaert,
Audrie J. Neenan,
John Costelloe,
Lloyd Clay Brown,
Joseph Foster,
Mike Roukis,
Haklar Dezso,
Frank Shanley,
Robert Ridgell,
Meryl Streep,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
Amy Adams,
Viola Davis,
Alice Drummond,
Carrie Preston
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Duration:
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104 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)90
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Plot Summary:
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Unchanged at a Catholic school in the Bronx, it centers on a nun who grows apprehensive when a woman begins intriguing too much interest in the animation of a young black critic. Is she being overly watchful or not jealous passably? And can she work within the system to locate the truly?
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Doubt
Todd McCarthyThe considerable integrity and strength of John Patrick Shanley???s play prevail despite a questionable central performance in Doubt. Stepping back behind the camera for the first time since his misguided Joe Versus the Volcano in 1990, Shanley capably retains the power of his study of unsubstantiated moral convictions gone tragically awry, and the extensive opening up of his four-character, 90-minute 2005 Pulitzer and Tony Award winner adds in social context what it loses in sharply focused intensity. Miramax has plenty here to build this intelligent, absorbing drama into a strong B.O. performer with a discerning public looking for movies that are actually about something. Set in the socially transitional time of 1964, the probing story hinges on luri...
Doubt
Claudia Puig"So it's happened," Meryl Streep intones as the forbidding Sister Aloysius. With those three words, Doubt strikes a deeper chill in our hearts than the creepiest thriller. Streep delivers a bravura performance as the razor-tongued nun who suspects a popular parish priest of pedophilia. Philip Seymour Hoffman is every bit her equal in his spectacular portrayal of the genial accused priest, Father Flynn. There may not be two better actors working today: To watch Hoffman and Streep match wits is exhilarating. Amy Adams is well-cast as the sweet-natured Sister James, whose suspicions mount at the prodding of Sister Aloysius. Viola Davis is perfect as the mother of 12-year-old Donald, whom Sister Aloysius suspects Father Flynn of molesting. Set...
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