FINALLY! "Bernie" is a movie worth watching

Bernie (9) got me back to the theater. Glad I went (for a change.)

Monday, January 5, 2009

Doubt


Rating:  9 out of 10

Starring:  Meryl Streep, Phil Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams

Genre: Adult Drama

Adapted from and award-winning stage play, this film is seen as an allegory of moralistic intolerance, close-minded certainly versus reasonable doubt.  Streep is the principal of a strict Catholic grade school.  She fabricates her own case against Hoffman, the parish priest. Accusing him of improper advances toward a young student.  Streep and Hoffman are convincing in their confrontational roles, and Amy Adams acts well as Streep's naive foil.

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