MOVIE · 2008

Doubt

DramaMystery104 min

In a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, the iron-willed Sister Aloysius begins to suspect that the parish’s popular new priest has taken an improper interest in the school’s first Black student. Meryl Streep is Aloysius, whose certainty collides with Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a reform-minded cleric pushing against the school’s strict traditions. When a younger nun, Amy Adams’s Sister James, quietly shares what she has seen, suspicion hardens into a private campaign inside the church and the classroom, with questions of authority and proof hanging over every exchange.