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Actor: Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour HoffmanBrand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-04-07
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Miramax
Product features:
- From Miramax Films comes one of the most honored and acclaimed motion pictures of the year, DOUBT. Based on the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play, DOUBT is a mesmerizing, suspense-filled drama with four riveting performances from Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis that will have you pinned to the edge of your seat. Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Streep), the rigid
DVD Reviews of Doubt
DVD Review: I "Doubt" if I will ever order an almost new DVD again.
Summary: 3 Stars
The DVD sticks at different points during the movie. You get what you pay for.DVD Review: Good acting makes this suspenseful
Summary: 4 Stars
Excellent acting by all three stars enlivens this drama about a priest possibly involved in sexual abuse of a young teen. Merrill Streep, the middle-aged Sister Aloysius is principal of a Catholic school in the Bronx some time in the early 1960s. Philip Seymour Hoffman is Father Brendan, the parish priest who may possibly be abusing a teenage student. Amy Adams is Sister James, the young neophyte nun who wants to believe good about everybody but begins to develop doubts.
The backdrop to the movie which uses authentic locations (it was shot in playwright and director John Patrick Shanley's own neighborhood and school) as well as the recurrent image of swirling leaves and the dark dull interiors lend an atmosphere of gloom.
Streep gives a wonderful performance as a nun who has seen a good bit of the world. She had previously been married and widowed, we learn, before taking the veil. She is deliberately tough and down-to-earth. She is committed to fighting the priest. Seymour Hoffman portrays him as all too human, basically a decent sort with a specific weakness. Adams is all incredulity. Her character is the least nuanced and complicated but she delivers it well.
The dialogue is often riveting and I found myself engrossed in the story. But the final climax where Sister Aloysius goes through her own personal crisis I found overly theatrical and not convincing. Of course, she acts up a storm -- but it is not authentic.
This is an important but not disastrous flaw in a fine movie.
DVD Review: As usual, Streep doesn't disappoint
Summary: 5 Stars
As usual, Streep doesn't disappoint. This actress is undoubtedly the best of all time in her field. Phillip Seymour Hoffman as the priest was excellent as well. Well worth watching.DVD Review: Powerful, intelligent drama
Summary: 5 Stars
Doubt is the most powerful, well-acted drama of 2008. The story is set in 1964, at a Catholic school in the Bronx. The plot centers around the school's priest, Father Flynn. He is suspected of instigating an improper relationship, with one of the students at the school.
Meryl Streep plays the stern nun and school Principal, Sister Aloysius Beauvier. Sister Aloysius is often at odds with her subordinate, Sister James. Sister James is a much younger nun, then Sister Aloysius. And Sister James doesn't agree with the harsh methods, that Sister Aloysius insists on using to deal with the students.
A black student named Donald Miller is admitted to the school, and he's the only black attending. Mass integration hasn't yet been implemented at the school. So, Donald is often singled-out by the white kids, as a target for their racism. Donald seeks advice from Father Flynn, about his interest in becoming a priest. Father Flynn also gives Donald morale support, when Donald is harassed by some white students.
One day, Sister James witnesses Father Flynn summoning Donald into a private meeting, in the Rectory. She also sees Father Flynn place Donald's T-shirt, into a locker. When Donald returns to his desk after his meeting with Father Flynn, Donald seems upset to Sister James. She also notices the odor of alcohol, on Donald's breath. Suspecting that Father Flynn had lured Donald into a carnal tryst inside the Rectory, Sister James goes immediately to Sister Aloysius with her concerns.
Meanwhile, Father Flynn wants the school to become more progressive, and reach-out more to their congregation. His philosophy is in direct opposition, to the old-fashioned mentality of Sister Aloysius. She thinks that order and propriety, are more important than the more congenial values, espoused by Father Flynn.
After Sister James confronts Sister Aloysius with her terrible suspicions regarding Father Flynn, Sister Aloysius is 'certain' that Father Flynn is guilty. And she's determined to prove that the seemingly benign, compassionate Father Flynn, is truly a proverbial wolf-in-sheep's-clothing.
Meryl Streep should win an Oscar, for her stellar performance as Sister Aloysius. As a woman on the cusp of being a senior citizen, Meryl fit nicely into the role of the dignified, elder nun. Phillip Seymore Hoffman, was also a good choice to play Father Flynn. Hoffman portrays Father Flynn with just enough of a smarmy aura, to make the view believe that he could really be a devil-in-disguise.
Doubt is a deep, and moving drama. It's an intelligent film, that makes the viewer question their own assumptions about human nature. I highly recommend it, especially for Meryl Streep fans.
DVD Review: Good movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Two of my very favorite actors in one movie. How could I not like it. Wonderful acting.
Description of Doubt
From Miramax Films comes one of the most honored and acclaimed motion pictures of the year, Doubt. Based on the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, Doubt is a mesmerizing, suspense-filled drama with four riveting performances from Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis that will have you pinned to the edge of your seat. Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Streep), the rigid and fear-inspiring principal of the Saint Nicholas Church School, suffers an extreme dislike for the progressive and popular parish priest Father Flynn (Hoffman). Looking for wrongdoing in every corner, Sister Aloysius believes she's uncovered the ultimate sin when she hears Father Flynn has taken a special interest in a troubled boy. But without proof, the only thing certain is doubt."One of the best pictures of the year," (USA Today, Rolling Stone, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner, Roger Ebert).
Bonus Features include From Stage To Screen, Scoring Doubt, The Sisters Of Charity
It's always a risk when writers direct their own work, since some playwrights don't travel well from stage to screen. Aided by Roger Deakins, of No Country for Old Men fame, who vividly captures the look of a blustery Bronx winter, Moonstruck's John Patrick Shanley pulls it off. If Doubt makes for a dialogue-heavy experience, like The Crucible and 12 Angry Men, the words and ideas are never dull, and a consummate cast makes each one count. Set in 1964 and loosely inspired by actual events, Shanley focuses on St. Nicholas, a Catholic primary school that has accepted its first African-American student, Donald Miller (Joseph Foster), who serves as altar boy to the warm-hearted Father Flynn (Phillip Seymour Hoffman). Donald may not have any friends, but that doesn't worry his mother, Mrs. Miller (Viola Davis in a scene-stealing performance), since her sole concern is that her son gets a good education. When Sister James (Amy Adams) notices Flynn concentrating more of his attentions on Miller than the other boys, she mentions the matter to Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Meryl Streep), the school's hard-nosed principal. Looking for any excuse to push the progressive priest out of her tradition-minded institution, Sister Aloysius sets out to destroy him, and if that means ruining Donald's future in the process--so be it. Naturally, she's the least sympathetic combatant in this battle, but Streep invests her disciplinarian with wit and unexpected flashes of empathy. Of all the characters she's played, Sister Aloysius comes closest to caricature, but she never feels like a cartoon; just a sad woman willing to do anything to hold onto what little she has before the forces of change render her--and everything she represents--redundant. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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