Having gone to a Catholic grade school in that era for 8 years, I found much of this to be true: The strictness of some nuns, the reverence to the priest, priests and their cronies smoking and drinking, and most of all - the "cover-up" and hypocrisy. The priest feeling that he was "above the law" and could get away with anything because he was a Man of God and the nuns were subservient to him. No nudity or foul language, however more appealing to adults from this era who can relate to it. Most excellent acting by Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams!