What do you do with the writer of Taco Bell advertising tour de force, Congo? Let him write and direct a movie about what might have happened at a Catholic parish.
While this movie did lack the killer laser apes indicative of John Patrick Shanley's earlier work, it did have Amy Adams dressed as a nun.
I'm ashamed to say I needed Lydia to point out that the movie was called Doubt and the last word of the movie was "Doubts". According to her, that was to reinforce the idea that this movie had a theme of doubt. I think she was reading too much into it. To say that would be the same as saying that because there were thunderstorms
during every conflict between characters means there was a relation. Nothing but coincidence.Next thing you know, she's going to be telling me that Meryl Streep isn't actually and Nun and Philip Seymore Hoffman isn't actually Truman Capote dressed up as a priest. I doubt it.
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The last thing this dude wrote and directed was Joe vs the Volcano, a far more morally subtle movie, and the auspicious first pairing of Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. Maybe it's the 3 a.m. talking, but right now I'd like to think this means we can look forward to a series of overwrought religious movies and PSH and Meryl Streep will become the arch nemeses of American cinema. Maybe?
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