'DOUBT' Makes Weekend Top Ten Box Office List

Miramax's Doubt, which stars Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Viola Davis successfully expanded from 39 theaters to 1,267 reports Variety.

Doubt came in No. 10 for the three-day weekend, grossing $5.7 million for a per-screen average of $4,479 and a current total of $8.8 million in its third weekend.

For the long holiday weekend (Thursday-Sunday), "Doubt" grossed $7.1 million states Variety

The other acclaimed stage to screen transfer Universal's "Frost/Nixon" had a per-screen average of $7,179 as it expanded to 205 runs, grossing an estimated $1.5 million for the three days; and a total of $3.7 million in its fourth weekend.

Both films are gaining excellent word of mouth and reviews, and are being discussed as possible Oscar contenders on every level.

Set at a Catholic school in the Bronx, Doubt centers on a nun who grows suspicious when a priest begins taking too much interest in a young black student. Is she being overly protective or not protective enough? And can she work within the system to discover the truth?

A charismatic priest, Father Flynn, is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the iron-gloved Principal who believes in the power of fear and 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 consequence.

The film stars Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis.

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