Doubt Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

A nun confronts a priest after suspecting him of abusing a black student.

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

It's 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A vibrant, charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman), is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier (Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep), the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Academy Award® nominee Amy Adams), a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing 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 a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequence.

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Doubt.

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  Meryl Streep

  The Giver, Into the Woods

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  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2

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  Viola Davis

  G20, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

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  Amy Adams

  Klara and the Sun, Man of Steel

• A
  Alice Drummond

  Pieces of April

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  Carrie Preston

  To the Bone, The Holdovers

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  Susan Blommaert

  United 93

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  Audrie Neenan

• J
  Joseph Foster

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  Michael Roukis

Crew Behind the Film

The Doubt behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

The film's director John Patrick Shanley last directed Wild Mountain Thyme. The film's writer John Patrick Shanley last wrote Wild Mountain Thyme and Whiskey River.

Director

John Patrick Shanley

Screenwriter

John Patrick Shanley

Producers

Mark Roybal
Scott Rudin

Production Details

What we know about the Doubt movie production.

Key Facts

• Based on the Pulitzer Prize and Tony winning play. Production began on December 1, 2007. The film, which centers on a Bronx Catholic School, was filmed in various areas of The Bronx and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Natalie Portman was considered for the role of Sister James, but she declined and the role went to Amy Adams.

Production Updates for Doubt

Dec 2008

Completed

Changed Doubt movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

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