Meryl Monday: Miss Streep has no doubt as she confronts Philip Seymour Hoffman in “Doubt”

Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved principal of St. Nicholas in the Bronx, comes to believe that the parish’s charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is molesting a 12-year-old male student.

In this scene from the brilliantly acted 2008 film Doubt, the nun confront the priest and both Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman are first-rate in this dramatic confrontation scene. Both were nominated for an Academy Award as were co-stars Amy Adams and Viola Davis.