Trivia for
The Scarlet Letter (1995) More at IMDbPro »

• Nicholas Rice is credited as playing the clerk, but the role was actually played by someone else.
  
  
• When asked about changing the ending to the story, Demi Moore reportedly said it was okay with her to make the ending happy because not many people have read the book.
  
  
• Three original scores were written for this film. The ones by Ennio Morricone and Elmer Bernstein were rejected. The one used was by John Barry.
  
  
• The girls who play infant Pearl and little Pearl are Demi Moore's real life daughters, Scout LaRue Willis and Tallulah Belle Willis.
  
  
• Meg Ryan lobbied hard for the part of Hester Prynne.
  
  
• Richard Gere, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Anthony Hopkins were all considered for the male lead.
  
  
• This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
  
  
• 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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