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Release Date:
13 October 1995 (USA) more
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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... more | add synopsis
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1 win & 9 nominations more
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Entertaining, sensuous and beautifully lensed film. more (72 total)

Cast

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Demi Moore ... Hester Prynne

Gary Oldman ... Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale

Robert Duvall ... Roger Chillingworth
Lisa Joliffe-Andoh ... Mituba
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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MPAA:
Rated R for violence and sexuality.
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135 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.35 : 1 more
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Nicholas Rice is credited as playing the clerk, but the role was actually played by someone else. more
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Hester Prynne: I wonder if existance as a woman is worthwhile at all. more
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Referenced in The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield (1997) (VG) more
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14 out of 25 people found the following comment useful.
Entertaining, sensuous and beautifully lensed film., 22 January 1999
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Author: William David Simmons from Newport, RI

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.

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