DoubtOur spotlight on Meryl Streep kicks off with an engrossing drama in which Streep is reunited with her Julie & Julia co-star, Amy Adams, who takes the role of a young nun confronting a crisis of faith.
It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A personable young priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) is trying to upend the strict school customs which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Streep). The winds of political and social change are sweeping through the community and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller.
When Sister James (Amy Adams), an unworldly innocent, voices her misgivings about Father Flynn, it provides useful grist to the mill for Sister Aloysius to justify a personal crusade against Father Flynn.
Director John Patrick Shanley adapted his Pulitzer Prize-winning play for the screen in a gripping drama about the devastating consequences of blind justice in an age defined by moral absolutes.
