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There's still some tix left for Wednesday night's 7:30 p.m. SIFF benefit screening of Doubt, starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis--all of whom have a shot at Academy Award nominations this year. This is your chance to see John Patrick Shanley's screen version of his Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play before it hits theaters later this month. It's about the Catholic church sex scandal, as viewed through the prisms of morality, truth, fear, faith, discipline, etc. We are as excited as one can be about such things. But seriously, the movie's got Oscar written all over it. Tickets are $12 with proceeds benefiting SIFF.

If you go see only one play about possibly pedophiliac priests this year, we can heartily recommend you make it John Patrick Shanley's Doubt. Shanley's play, set the year after Zapruder's Zoomatic became famous, pulls you back into the context of a much different time, when nuns wore habits, the Catholic Mass was a mumbled Latin, and the priesthood enjoyed a less tarnished status.