Doubt [DVD]

In 1964, at St. Nicholas Parish in the Bronx, a passionate and charismatic priest, Father Flynn (Philip Seymour Hoffman), is trying to change the school's rigid rules, which for years have been jealously safeguarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. (Meryl Streep), a strict principal who firmly believes in the power of discipline. Winds of political change are sweeping the community, and in fact the school has accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James (Amy Adams) innocently tells Sister Aloysius her suspicions that Father Flynn pays too much attention to Donald, the superior, without a single piece of evidence, begins a personal crusade to expose him. the truth and expel Flynn from school for abusing the student. This battle threatens to tear the community apart irreversibly. Based on a play that won the Pulitzter Prize and a Toni Award in its theatrical adaptation.