The Scarlet Letter R
When intimacy is forbidden and passion is a sin, love is the most defiant crime of all.
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The Scarlet Letter (1934)
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 15 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 2, 2019
- Originally Released: 2019
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Demi Moore, Gary Oldman & Robert Duvall | |
Performer: | Robert Prosky, Edward Hardwicke, Lisa Jolliff-Andoh, Roy Dotrice, Malcolm Storry, George Aguilar, Tim Woodward, Dana Ivey, Diane Salinger, Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, Eric Schweig, Kristin Fairlie & Joan Plowright | |
Directed by | Roland Joffé | |
Edited by | Thom Noble | |
Screenplay by | Douglas Day Stewart | |
Original story by | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
Composition by | John Barry | |
Produced by | Roland Joffé & Andrew G. Vajna | |
Director of Photography: | Alex Thomson | |
Executive Production by | Dodi Fayed & Tova Laiter |
Entertainment Reviews:
Not only does the film bear little resemblance to the source novel, but it's cluttered with ridiculous symbolism.
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Time Out
Rating: 1.5/4 --
Rage, love, defiance, confusion, fear -- Moore just sticks out her chin and makes her eyes brim with tears. She's the stolidly immovable object at the film's center, and there's no getting around her.
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TV Guide
Rating: 1/5 --
If you've read the book you won't know the ending. Let's just say that Indians with flaming arrows come to the rescue. They manage to keep a straight face, which is more than anyone in the audience will be able to do.
New York Times
Despite the cast taking themselves very seriously indeed, The Scarlet Letter is a great comic turn, complete with cod-accents and other period jiggery-pokery.
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Film4
Rating: 2/5 --
For all the talent on display, this is a waste of movie.
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Empire Magazine
Oldman scores a few points as Dimmsdale, but he's ultimately undone by the muttonheaded script. It doesn't help that his character's been turned into a kind of angsty hippie-dippie dude.
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CNN.com
A very '90s take on a 1660s tale written in 1850, as a picture of early colonial life it's about as convincing as Pocahontas.
Variety
Product Description:
Roland Joffé's adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's seminal novel tells the story of an intolerant Puritan community in the early days of American settlement. In the 1660s, Hester Prynne (Demi Moore) makes the voyage to the New World in order to find religious freedom and a new home for her and her husband, Roger (Robert Duvall). However, Hester proves to be too free-spirited and strong-willed for most of the conservative Massachusetts Bay colony members. She abandons the laws of the colony and sets up a home far from the town square, living by her own rules and setting the townspeople's morals on end. While waiting for her husband's arrival from England, she befriends the town pastor, Arthur Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman), a liberal-minded and passionate man who instantly strikes Hester's fancy. Although the married woman and pious pastor are strongly attracted to one another, the two refuse to give in to temptation--until Roger is reported dead in a violent Indian massacre. When the townfolk hear about the ensuing scandal, they force Hester to wear a shameful scarlet "A" (for adultery) on her clothing at all times--while living as a moral and social outcast.
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- UPC: 738329230890
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