Doubt

Mystery

Meryl Streep	Sister Aloysius Beauvier
Philip Seymour Hoffman	Father Brendan Flynn
Amy Adams	Sister James
Viola Davis	Mrs. Muller
Lloyd Clay Brown	Jimmy Hurley
Joseph Foster	Donald Muller
Bridget Megan Clark	Noreen Horan
Michael Roukis	William London
Paulie Litt	Tommy Conroy
Matthew Marvin	Raymond
Carrie Preston	Ma Hurley
Lydia Jordan	Alice
Molly Chiffer	Sarah
Evan Lewis	Parishioner John
Timothy J. Cox	Churchgoer

Director	John Patrick Shanley
Producer	Scott Rudin
Writer	John Patrick Shanley

Set at a Catholic boys school in the Bronx in the 1960s, Doubt is a power play between characters that represent two philosophies of the religion. Catholicism as a representation of old-world guilt and shame is portrayed by Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep), a fearsome nun with no sense of humor and an iron will for discipline. The kinder, gentler approach is taken by the school’s head priest Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman). When Aloysius suspects Flynn of an inappropriate relationship with the school’s first black student, with no proof other than hearsay and her own conviction, it sets off a fire storm that threatens to derail the entire parish.