Doubt

[EvilCat Breath]

This would be a remarkable movie just for the two powerhouse leads, Meryl Streep and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. However it has a gripping story that never resolves any doubt.

Streep is the Principal of a Catholic school. Hoffman is the parish priest Streep suspects then accuses of having an inappropriate relationship with the school's only black student, a young boy recently transferred in. Streep confronts the child's mother, portrayed by Viola Davis only to find out that the boy is gay and the victim of abuse at home and in his prior school. The priest is the only person that ever showed the boy any kindness in his entire life.

Undaunted Streep continues efforts to prove that Hoffman has always been a pedophile. She just can never find evidence. Finally she resorts to outright lying and confronts the priest with a litany of fabricated accusations. Hoffman gives up and asks for a transfer. He gets it in the form of a promotion. In the end the only person to suffer from the principal's obsession is the lonely black child deprived of his only caring friend, Streep had to confront her own doubt. Maybe she was wrong all along.

It's a very good movie on HBO.

 

[The Irish Ram]

It is a good movie. What a shame Hoffman is gone.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

It is a good movie. What a shame Hoffman is gone.

What a shame he was a druggie

 

[Flopper]

This would be a remarkable movie just for the two powerhouse leads, Meryl Streep and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. However it has a gripping story that never resolves any doubt.

Streep is the Principal of a Catholic school. Hoffman is the parish priest Streep suspects then accuses of having an inappropriate relationship with the school's only black student, a young boy recently transferred in. Streep confronts the child's mother, portrayed by Viola Davis only to find out that the boy is gay and the victim of abuse at home and in his prior school. The priest is the only person that ever showed the boy any kindness in his entire life.

Undaunted Streep continues efforts to prove that Hoffman has always been a pedophile. She just can never find evidence. Finally she resorts to outright lying and confronts the priest with a litany of fabricated accusations. Hoffman gives up and asks for a transfer. He gets it in the form of a promotion. In the end the only person to suffer from the principal's obsession is the lonely black child deprived of his only caring friend, Streep had to confront her own doubt. Maybe she was wrong all along.

It's a very good movie on HBO.

Good movie and well worth watching, if this is your kind of movie.