Hey! Movies! Leave Them Plays Alone!

“As movie adaptations of stage plays go, the recently released ‘Frost/Nixon’ and ‘Doubt’ are among the best of recent vintage, not least because the writers of the sourcing play also penned the screen versions. … But ‘Frost/Nixon’ and ‘Doubt’ are also, in very different ways, revelatory examples of how certain themes, emotions and truths simply cannot be fully and effectively transferred from stage to screen.”