
"Doubt" is a blur with abounding accomplished elements, but its director, John Patrick Shanley, doesn't assume to assurance them. Which is rather odd, because it was Shanley who wrote both the Software and the play on which it's based.
That play, arresting abundant to win four Tonys and the Pulitzer Prize and allure blur stars such as Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams, is set in the cardinal year of 1964 in St. Nicholas, a Catholic abbey and academy in the Bronx.
It data a battle amid the church's Father Flynn (Hoffman) and the school's principal, Sister Aloysius (Streep), about the administration of the Catholic acceptance in accepted and the fate of one 12-year-old chantry boy in particular.