Try not to flinch when viewing the trailer for "Doubt," which just came out today. Meryl Streep hasn't been this scary since her last Oscar nomination — for "The Devil Wears Prada" — but this time she's playing a nun in a role that earned Cherry Jones a Tony Award as best actress in the Broadway production of "Doubt," winner of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize for best play of 2005. Even though there's much real doubt about this nun's allegation that a priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman, best actor winner for "Capote") molested a school boy, watch her shout the famous line, "I have my certainty!" It's chilling.

Meryl Streep holds the record for most Oscar nominations among performers (14). However, she only has two wins (lead for "Sophie's Choice," supporting for "Kramer vs. Kramer"), which is half as many as all-time Oscars champ Katharine Hepburn.

John Patrick Shanley, who won an Oscar for writing "Moonstruck" in 1987, adapted his Broadway script to screen. This film adaptation is produced by the same chap who staged the play — Scott Rudin, who had two best-picture nominees in last year's derby: "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood." It also stars Amy Adams, past nominee for best supporting actress for "Junebug."

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