Viewed "Doubt" during the past weekend, and I found it so engrossing and unexpectedly intense that I watched it again last night. Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx in 1964, the story concerns the vague suspicions and dislike of the school's principal, Sister Aloysius, towards the church's pastor, Father Flynn. She urges the other sisters to be on the lookout for anything that doesn't seem quite right. Sister James, a young and idealistic teacher, reports what she has observed concerning the 12 year old Donald Miller, and sets in motion the chain of events that follow for the rest of the picture. Meryl Streep is excellent as Sister Aloysius, determined, inflexible, and oh so right in her own mind about the doubts she has concerning Father Flynn; Philip Seymour Hoffman provides a wonderful performance as the pastor under attack; and Amy Adams is superb as the somewhat innocent and trusting Sister James.Viola Davis, even though her time on the screen is brief, makes her pivotal character of Mrs. Miller very real. A movie about right and wrong and trust and doubt, very thought provoking and well acted throughout. It just blew me away. One of the best pictures I've seen in quite a long time.