Doubt [Blu-ray]

Author: Meryl Streep

Format: NTSC

Release Date: 07-04-2009

Details: Amazon.caIt’s always a risk when writers direct their own work, since some playwrights don’t travel well from stage to screen. Aided by Roger Deakins, ofNo Country for Old Men fame, who vividly captures the look of a blustery Bronx winter,Moonstruck’s John Patrick Shanley pulls it off. IfDoubt makes for a dialogue-heavy experience, likeThe Crucible and12 Angry Men, the words and ideas are never dull, and a consummate cast makes each one count. Set in 1964 and loosely inspired by actual events, Shanley focuses on St. Nicholas, a Catholic primary school that has accepted its first African-American student, Donald Miller (Joseph Foster), who serves as altar boy to the warm-hearted Father Flynn (Phillip Seymour Hoffman). Donald may not have any friends, but that doesn’t worry his mother, Mrs. Miller (Viola Davis in a scene-stealing performance