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	Movie Plot Stirs Opposition in Naugatuck Waterbury Republican-American September 20, 2007 http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2007/09/20/newsblog/doc46f26550924e2660938463.txt Hollywood may receive stiff resistance from Naugatuck educators over a controversial movie that could be filmed at Salem School. The principaland at least two Board of Education members do not want Miramax Films to shoot scenes at the school for a movie called "Doubt," starring Oscar winners Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The film is based on a 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winning play set at a Catholic school in the Bronx, N.Y. It is about a nun who becomes suspicious when a priest takes too much interest in the life of the school's first black student. In the play, the nun suspects that the priest gave the boy alcohol and may have sexually molested him, though the script never definitively says whether the claims are true. Mayor Mike Bronko believes the decision is his, and he supports Miramax filming in Naugatuck. "The content of the movie does not mean we're endorsing it," he said. "It just means we're giving the company a venue to use." He added that discussions are premature until Miramax decides where to film. Miramax officials said Naugatuck is one of the towns in Connecticut they are scouting as possible locations for the film, which will debut in 2008. Salem School and the Naugatuck Congregational Church are two locations under consideration.
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