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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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(29 articles)
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Entertaining, sensuous and beautifully lensed film.
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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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After its critical mauling and disastrous box office performance in the States, this was released in British cinemas without being screened for critics, the first time such a thing had happened for a major release in the UK.
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Hester Prynne:
I have dreamed of speaking my heart, I have prayed for it even as I have dreaded it. Was I alive before I laid eyes on thee?
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Referenced in The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield (1997) (VG)
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Agnus Dei
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I am an English major and have to say, yes, the book was better and this film is not equal but by itself as a "freely adapted" version it too has merit. It has a beautiful score by excellent film composer John Barry, superb acting by both Gary Oldman and Demi Moore (as a woman way ahead of her time) and even excellent supporting cast. It is beautifully filmed and on its own - is a rare romantic treat that would be great in a double feature with say "THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS" w/ Daniel Day Lewis. Oldman is terrific...his best role I believe. The only distraction....the always wonderful Robert Duvall as a madman...who starts to stray this film toward THE CRUCIBLE area of witchcraft.