What is Doubt about?
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
Doubt (2008)
Bronx nuns grapple with unsettling suspicions about a new priest and a vulnerable student in 1964.
Suspenseful and intimate. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Prime Video, Kanopy (free) and Hoopla (free).
Doubt parents guide
Nothing past what a PG-13 promises: some innuendo or implied sex and mild language.
Rated PG-13, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 10.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Cast and crew
Directed byJohn Patrick Shanley
StarringMeryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis, Alice Drummond, Audrie Neenan
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