Doubt

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The Resource Doubt

Statement of responsibility: Miramax Films presents ; a Scott Rudin production ; a film by John Patrick Shanley ; produced by Scott Rudin, Mark Roybal ; written for the screen and directed by John Patrick Shanley

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Summary: 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without any proof, besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn. This threatens to tear apart the community with it's irrevocable consequence

Credits note: Music by Howard Shore ; costume designer, Ann Roth ; editor, Dylan Tichenore ; production designer, David Gropman ; director of photography, Roger Deakins

Language note: In English or French; Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)

PerformerNote: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis, Alice Drummond, Audrie Neenan, Susan Blommaert, Carrie Preston, John Costelloe, Lloyd Clay Brown, Joseph Foster II

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Context of Doubt