Doubt
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Genre: Christian film, Film adaptation, Period piece, Mystery, Drama
Year: 2008
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Lloyd Clay Brown, Frank Shanley, Joseph Foster, Mike Roukis, John Costelloe, Alice Drummond, Susan Blommaert, Audrie J. Neenan, Paul Litowsky, Carrie Preston, Frank Dolce
Doubt is a 2008 film adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize winning fictive stage play Doubt: A Parable. Written and directed by Shanley and produced by Scott Rudin, the film stars Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis. It premiered October 30, 2008 at the AFI Fest before being distributed by Miramax Films in limited release on December 12, 2008 and in wide release on December 25.
The film's four main actors were heavily praised for their acting, and all of them were nominated for Oscars at the 81st Academy Awards. Viola Davis received her first nomination and Amy Adams received her second nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Philip Seymour Hoffman received his second nomination of Best Supporting Actor, and third overall, while Meryl Streep received her twelfth nomination for Best Actress and her fifteenth overall.
Set in 1964 at a Catholic church in the Bronx, New York, the film opens with the progressive-minded Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman) giving a sermon on the nature of doubt, noting that, like faith, it can be a unifying force. The next evening, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), the strict and conservative
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