This week the movie hits our billboards "The doubt", based on the winning work of the pulitzer prize, with an excellent job from Meryl Streep which has made her once again get a nomination for the Hollywood Oscars and win the American Actors Guild award for best actress of the year.
La film «The Doubt» tells a story that runs in 1964 in St. Nicholas, in the Bronx. A vibrant and charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman Oscar Award winner) is trying to change the strict customs of the school, which have long been jealously guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Oscar-winning Meryl Streep), the Iron-fisted Headmistress who believes in the power of fear. and discipline. Winds of political change are blowing through the community and the school just accepted the first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Oscar Award nominee Amy Adams), an innocent optimist, shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius launches a personal crusade to unearth the truth and expel Father Flynn from school. Now, without any proof other than her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius engages in a battle of wills with Father Flynn, which threatens to fracture the community with irrevocable consequences.
Oscar-winning screenwriter John Patrick Shanley (Moonstruck) adapted his play for film and directed The Doubt, starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis. The film is produced by Scout Rudin and Mark Roybal, with Celia Costas serving as executive producer.