Doubtful

I saw the trailer for Doubt. A very impressive production, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams. Still, it didn't look too good.

You can't really tell from a preview, but so often, a piece that holds the stage doesn't adapt. Shows that excite critics, like Proof (also won a Pulitzer) or History Boys, just lay there when you take them out of their natural habitat. I'm not saying adaptations never work (though I might be saying they're never really better than the original theatrical experience), just that the two media seem so similar in certain ways that people are fooled into thinking what works in one will work in another.