Movie Review

I will probably never understand Catholic Priests and Nuns and this movie did not help me with that. It did not help me to like Meryl Streep either. (At least her character -though I do love her) She played a perfectly awful nun principal of a school where the school's first black student is befriended by a priest. This causes one of the nuns to have doubts about his relationship with the student. (Plot summary here.)

You keep wondering if there might have been something to her accusations. Streep's character really has few redeeming characteristics. She rules the school with an iron fist and everyone is terrified of her. She decides to go after the priest because of her suspicions and feelings. She does so with a vengance. This is nothing like the fun-loving character she played earlier this year in Mamma Mia.

Philip Seymour Hoffman does a terrific job as the priest accused. He may or may not have abused the boy. That is where the title of the film comes in - Doubt.

This film will make you think and it will also entertain you.