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Amazingly we got through another movie this weekend. We saw the movie Doubt with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Amy Adams. Coincidentally it was the second movie we watched this weekend with Amy Adams. And yet another movie tie-in with The Devil Wears Prada with Streep being in both movies.

The movie is set in 1964 around a Catholic church in New York (I first thought it was Boston). It definitely brought back memories of going to church. It was funny to explain to my wife about all the things that I used to do when I was an altar boy.

The film itself is rather riveting. We got lucky in that the kid went to bed early so we got to watch the last hour uninterrupted. That hour went by pretty quickly. Hoffman and Streep aren't in many scenes together, but when they are together you can really feel the tension between these two characters. What I also liked about Streep's character is that she has that personae around the kids where she is a hard ass, but when she is around her peers you see a little bit of the humanity. For example, she's very protective of the nun going blind.

The big twist concerning Donald's mother was pretty shocking. It really wasn't what I was expecting. She was a totally believable character as a mother just trying to keep her family together in the mid 1960s.

I give the movie 3 out of 4 stars. A very surprising and interesting flick. Maybe not repeatable to watch, but the acting and story really make it an above average movie.