It’s 1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the school’s strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear-based discipline. The winds of political change are sweeping through the community, and indeed, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James, a hopeful innocent, shares with Sister Aloysius her guilt-inducing suspicion that Father Flynn is paying too much personal attention to Donald, Sister Aloysius sets off on a personal crusade to unearth the truth and to expunge Flynn from the school. Now, without a shard of proof besides her moral certainty, Sister Aloysius locks into a battle of wills with Father Flynn which threatens to tear apart the community with irrevocable consequences.
Release Date: 25 December 2008Runtime: 104 min
Stars:
- Alice Drummond
- Amy Adams
- Audrie Neenan
- Carrie Preston
- Frank Shanley
- Haklar Dezso
- John Costelloe
- Joseph Foster
- Lloyd Clay Brown
- Meryl Streep
- Mike Roukis
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
- Robert Ridgell
- Susan Blommaert
- Viola Davis
Director: John Patrick Shanley
