The Scarlet Letter (Blu-ray) R
When intimacy is forbidden and passion is a sin, love is the most defiant crime of all.
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Blu-ray 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:
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
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
...Moore obviously connects with the frank, mind-of-her own aspect of Hester Prynne and makes a respectable account of the character on that basis....[The] production has been lushly mounted...
Variety
Rating: 2/5 --
For all the talent on display, this is a waste of movie.
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Empire Magazine
"Freely adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne," the credits say cautiously. I'll say.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 0/5 --
Oh, Roland Joffé, thy free adaptation of the Hawthorne classic didst produce abudant derisive laughter. Didst thou once direct 'The Killing Fields?'
Nitrate Online
Hawthorne's moral seriousness gets lost in a sea of slush.
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Independent on Sunday
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.