Doubt

2008 • 104 minutos

Sobre este filme

Based on the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, Doubt is a mesmerizing, suspense-filled drama with riveting performances from Meryl Streep, Phillip 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 fears Father Flynn has taken a special interest in a troubled boy. But without proof, the only thing certain is doubt.

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Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep are incredible. Meryl Streep gives the most beautifully grounded, completely centered performance in this. It could so easily have been a a stereotype. So easily been shallow. She just filled it in. The direction is stellar. Hoffman creates this inscrutable, often likeable often uncomfortable character who is still a fully realized human being. Miraculous... Amy Adams, though good,, is a bit of a lightweight here as is, shockingly, Viola Davis.

A year prior to the release of the movie, my regional theater put on a production of Doubt. I wanted to see the movie version, just as a comparison and I was not disappointed. Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Meryl Streep do not disappoint with superb acting. My wife said it best, after the play she was certain she knew what happened; after the movie she had changed her mind. Hoffman's performance is one of his best. I remember hearing in an interview with Hoffman that the playwright told him, in confidence, what happened with the character. The audience will never know, and that's what makes it brilliant.

This movie is tense from beginning to end. I love the story line but the ending seems to completely deflate all the effort put into the movie. With the decision she had to make there could be no doubt. I really wished the ending was different and that is why I did not give it 5 stars.