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Cast: Meryl Streep ,Philip Seymour Hoffman ,Amy Adams ,Viola Davis,

Director: John Patrick Shanley

Writer: John Patrick Shanley

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Doubt is a film version of the John Patrick Shanley stage play Doubt. It takes place in1964 at a Catholic school in the Bronx. Meryl Streep is Sister Aloysius the strict principal.

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Sister James (Amy Adams), discover the closeness between Father Flynn and Donald Miller, the school’s only black student and an altar boy. She has also good reason to suspect Father Flynn to have drinking problem. Sister James tells Sister Aloysius about her suspicions.

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Sisters Aloysius and James confront Father Flynn with their suspicions that his relationship with Donald may be inappropriate. Father Flynn asks them to leave it alone as a private matter between the boy and himself but Sister Aloysius persists.  And her suspicions are unshakable.

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Trivia provided by The Internet Movie Database:

• The play won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

• The Broadway play ran for over a year at the Walter Kerr Theatre, with 525 performances. The original cast was: Cherry Jones (Sister Aloysius), Brian F. O’Byrne (Father Flynn), Heather Goldenhersh (Sister James) and Adriane Lenox (Mrs. Miller). All four were nominated for a Tony award. The play won four Tony awards: Best Play, Best Director (Doug Hughes), Best Actress (Jones), and Best Featured Actress (Lenox). Author John Patrick Shanley wrote both the stage play and the screenplay adaptation.

• Natalie Portman declined the role of Sister James.

• Sr. James was inspired by John Patrick Shanley’s kindergarten teacher, Sr. Margaret James.

• In the scenes in church when Fr. Flynn is wearing green vestments, he wears the stole over his chasuble. Although this fad became popular after Vatican 2, in 1964 the priest would have definitely worn the stole under the chasuble where it belongs.

• Oprah Winfrey reportedly lobbied for the role of Mrs. Miller, but John Patrick Shanley refused to even give her a reading.

• Viola Davis, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as Mrs. Miller, in the film, is only in two scenes. The first is an extended dialogue with Meryl Streep’s character, Sister Aloysius. In the second, she appears only for about 10 seconds and does not speak.

• In the play, Donald Miller is never seen.

• Meryl Streep and Amy Adams both played nuns in this film, but the two actresses had also played less celibate characters in previous movies. Amy Adams’ character had three boyfriends in Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008), as did Meryl Streep’s in Mamma Mia! (2008)

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• SPOILER: Just as he did with the play, John Patrick Shanley only told the actor who played Father Flynn whether or not Flynn was guilty. None of the other actors knew.