No Doubt

Four stellar performances anchor Doubt, last year’s moving film adaptation of the stage play by John Patrick Shanley, in stores now. Meryl Streep plays an iron-willed nun presiding over an Bronx elementary school in 1964. There she becomes locked in a battle of wills and intrigue with Philip Seymour Hoffman’s charismatic priest, who may or may not have an inappropriate relationship with the school’s first African American student. As tensions and accusations mount, Amy Adams’ mousy sister and the boy’s beleaguered mother played by Viola Davis, are caught in the crossfire and must choose who they believe. All four were nominated for Oscars in this thought-provoking meditation on gossip, authority and faith. Rated R.