What ‘Doubt’ Is About
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:28 AM
As others have noted, the Catholic-school movie Doubt (like the play) is kind of a Rorschach test that leaves audiences forming conclusions based on their preconceptions. The film, set in 1964, pits a disciplinarian nun (Meryl Streep) against a “the-Church-needs-to-change” priest (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) over his abuse of a child.
But having seen it, I think the movie version is open to... READ MORE
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Streep Doesn’t Doubt Nuns
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Sunday, December 14, 2008 3:46 AM
USA Today is an unlikely place to find a discussion of the virtues of nuns. But there it is, in Susan Wloszczyna’s article.
The story is schizophrenic. It keeps recognizing the virtues of habited nuns, then reminding the reader that we’re not supposed to like that kind of thing.
The story is about the movie Doubt, which opened Friday. Meryl Streep as the austere Sister Aloysius is “a... READ MORE
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Doubt and Douthat
Posted by Tom Hoopes
Sunday, November 02, 2008 10:07 AM
Meryl Streep as an old-school nun.
Coming in December to a theater not necessarily near you (it has a limited release) is Doubt, a movie version of the John Patrick Shanley play. The movie stars Meryl Streep as an angry nun and Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a sunny (and possibly abusive) priest. It’s from Miramax, and that can’t be good for the Church.
But the excellent Ross Douthat saw the play, and had this to say: “Doubt... READ MORE
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