Doubt PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 27, 2021
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Miramax
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman & Amy Adams | |
Performer: | Viola Davis & John Costelloe | |
Directed by | John Patrick Shanley | |
Edited by | Dylan Tichenor | |
Screenwriting by | John Patrick Shanley | |
Composition by | Howard Shore | |
Produced by | Scott Rudin & Mark Roybal | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Deakins |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- [Streep] slips something human between the gusts of piercing anger: wry grace notes written into her pursed lips and arching brow.
Empire
4 stars out of 5 -- [F]uelled equally by anger and compassion, writer-director John Patrick Shanley's DOUBT is a terrific and troubling drama of ideas bristling with nuance and grief.
Box Office
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The stage is set for an intense psychological drama, but perhaps that's the problem - Doubt hasn't translated well from stage to screen. With the theater's immediacy, it's easier in some ways to establish character.
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Washington Times
Rating: 2.25/5 --
The film fails to convince dramatically, not because of the performances -- the cast are all excellent -- but because the air has been sucked out of the characters.
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The Age (Australia)
Rating: A --
Don't miss it.
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Reel Talk Online
Rating: 2/5 --
The moral grey area of the title perhaps worked better in the stage play; exposed on screen it's not "doubt" being expressed, it's the sound of Streep's headmistressy voice demanding, "That Oscar - on my desk, NOW."
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Independent (UK)
Rating: 1/5 --
Doubt looks like some sort of upscale horror film, complete with crows and swirling leaves like The Omen. It's actually a terminally muddled piece of star-studded Oscar-bait.
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Guardian
Product Description:
A tough-as-nails Catholic school principal, Sister Aloysius (Meryl Streep) tries to trick a confession out of a progressive priest (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) whom she suspects of being a pedophile in this terse drama, directed by John Patrick Shanley, based on his hit stage play, set in the mid 1960s in the wake of the Kennedy assassination. There's a feeling of dread and claustrophobia in the parochial school air: the kids can't sit still and they quake in terror of being called downstairs to face Sister Aloysius's wrath. Amy Adams is the sweet-natured sister in charge of eighth grade, who first suspects Father Flynn (Hoffman) may have seduced a withdrawn African-American boy in her class. Sister Aloysius becomes convinced of the priest's guilt, but it's hard to be certain if her judgment is obscured by the change he represents or is just the result of her hardened years of experience.
Director of photography Roger Deakins brings a lived-in bleakness to the cold wintry Bronx settings: paint peeling off the rectory walls, bare trees reflected in frosty windows, wrinkled white linen, and old, wizened faces in the gloom of the actual location photography. This all contrasts impressively with the hothouse nature of the performances; when Hoffman and Streep finally go toe-to-toe, you can feel the gods of acting rise to attention. The real scene stealer here however is Viola Davis, shattering as the possibly victimized boy's hard-working mother. She even leaves Streep at a standstill, and that's saying something.
Director of photography Roger Deakins brings a lived-in bleakness to the cold wintry Bronx settings: paint peeling off the rectory walls, bare trees reflected in frosty windows, wrinkled white linen, and old, wizened faces in the gloom of the actual location photography. This all contrasts impressively with the hothouse nature of the performances; when Hoffman and Streep finally go toe-to-toe, you can feel the gods of acting rise to attention. The real scene stealer here however is Viola Davis, shattering as the possibly victimized boy's hard-working mother. She even leaves Streep at a standstill, and that's saying something.
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