Surprise? You call that a surprise? It's the fucking title of the movie.

I am looking forward to seeing "Doubt" very soon and I am sure Streep is fantastic, but God I wish they'd kept Cherry Jones from the Broadway production.

My main complaint, if it's even one, is that throughout the film I had a lingering suspicion that watching Meryl Streep's face doing all of those things from a few rows back in a theater would be a lot easier to handle than seeing them projected twenty feet tall.

The ideas, dialogue, and performances were aces, but the transition from stage to screen wasn't.

Mr. Frizzelle ... you write at a very high level, and your insights and obvious knowledge of movies are refreshing. Frankly, you could be writing top-level movie criticism pretty much anywhere you wanted to. I hope your career really takes off in the future. Nice job.

Hehe, thanks for an amusing review! I second the comments of LovesGoodWriting, above. I also "love anything with Meryl Streep—anything", so I can't wait to see this movie. Reading this has multiplied my anticipation by 10!

I have to say that I wanted to like this movie more than I ended up liking it, until I spent a half hour talking with the 5 other people I went with (by upbringing three Catholics (including me), two Protestants, one Jew). We all had slightly different takes on the outcome and whether he "did" it. It was fascinating and ultimately perhaps the point.

I really like all of the actors in it, but I, ultimately felt that something might have been lost between the stage and screen. Unfortunately, I missed Cherry Jones' performance when it was on tour and I kick myself for that.

This is the best movie review ever! So funny !

I saw Cherry Jones in her final performance of this on Broadway. After 300-some-odd performances she actually forgot her lines, and it took about 15 minutes for her to get back in the groove. In the middle of getting her lines read to her by someone off-stage, she turned to the audience and, completely non-plussed, explained that sometimes this just happened to an actor. It was a remarkable moment, and everyone loved her the more because of it. So I ditto the Cherry Jones mentions here; I'm so familiar with Streep's tricks as an actor that I really wish Shanley had turned this one over to Jones.