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Overview
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Release Date:
13 October 1995 (USA)
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Tagline:
When intimacy is forbidden and passion is a sin, love is the most defiant crime of all.
Plot:
In 1666 in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Puritans and Algonquian have an uneasy truce. Hester arrives from England...
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New England
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Adultery
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Jail
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Massachusetts
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Quaker
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Awards:
1 win
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9 nominations
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Not that bad, actually
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Demi Moore | ... | Hester Prynne |
 | Gary Oldman | ... | Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale |
 | Robert Duvall | ... | Roger Chillingworth |
 | Lisa Andoh | ... | Mituba (as Lisa Joliffe-Andoh) |
| Edward Hardwicke | ... | Gov. John Bellingham |
| Robert Prosky | ... | Horace Stonehall |
| Roy Dotrice | ... | Rev. Thomas Cheever |
| Joan Plowright | ... | Harriet Hibbons |
| Malcolm Storry | ... | Maj. Dunsmuir |
| James Bearden | ... | Goodman Mortimer (as Jim Bearden) |
 | Larissa Laskin | ... | Goody Mortimer |
| Amy Wright | ... | Goody Gotwick |
| George Aguilar | ... | Johnny Sassamon |
| Tim Woodward | ... | Brewster Stonehall |
| Joan Gregson | ... | Elizabeth Cheever |
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Rated R for violence and sexuality.
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Runtime:
135 min
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Colour (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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USA:R (certificate #34090) |
South Korea:18 |
Philippines:R-18 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Finland:K-14 |
Germany:12 (f) (bw) |
Iceland:16 |
Portugal:M/16 |
Singapore:M18 |
Spain:13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15
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This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIEŽ MOVIE GUIDE.
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Agnus Dei
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I was expecting something really awful, but once I got about 15 minutes into the movie, I decided that the only way to enjoy it was to forget that it was "based on" a famous novel and just enjoy the movie for what it was. And I found myself very entertained.
I was impressed with Gary Oldman's performance. It's nice to see him portray someone who isn't a psychotic ham and he did admirably well. Demi Moore suprised me with her acting and apart from a few stilted scenes and discomfort with the dialogue, I think she pulled it off pretty well. I found myself caring about her character and her relationship with Dimmesdale. Perhaps the bathing scene was a little too gratuitous -- c'mon, Demi, do you need to show it all? -- but it was only a few minutes out of 135.
I wish that Pearl could have been given more screen time and character development and the woman who did her voiceover throughout the story left much to be desired. As did Robert Duvall's performance. I didn't much like his acting in this movie at all.
The supporting cast was excellent: Joan Plowright, Edward Hardwicke, and others. The locations and set design were exquisite and the costumes were gorgeous.
Overall, I thought it was a very good way to spend a couple hours. You see some early colonial atmosphere, something which is almost extinct in movies nowadays, and adequate and sometimes inspired acting. Just don't expect to see Hawthorne's novel on the screen. If you want to see the unhappy ending in all its self-mutilating glory, see Lillian Gish's silent version that is sometimes aired on Turner Classic Movies. 6/10