In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
Meryl Streep
as Sister Aloysius Beauvier
Philip Seymour Hoffman
as Father Brendan Flynn
Amy Adams
as Sister James
Viola Davis
as Mrs. Miller
Alice Drummond
as Sister Veronica
Audrie Neenan
as Sister Raymond
Susan Blommaert
as Mrs. Carson
Carrie Preston
as Christine Hurley
John Costelloe
as Warren Hurley
Lloyd Clay Brown
as Jimmy Hurley
Joseph Foster
as Donald Miller
Bridget Megan Clark
as Noreen Horan
