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In Theaters and Streaming on Video Demand” 12.11 It’s hard for me to write about anything made by John Patrick Shanley, the man who wrote Doubt, without reflecting upon his eclectic career. And by that I mean: What the hell was up with Congo? I’m aware that it’s been 30 years, but I have not yet even begun to heal from that experience, or to comprehend what happened, other than to postulate the theory that Shanley wrote a deliberately and dumbfoundingly awful draft of the script and presented it to director Frank Marshall as a joke, and Marshall was too nice and too grateful to h...