Demi Moore
Hester Prynne
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The film version imagines all of the events leading up to the adultery, photographed in the style of those "Playboy's Fantasies" videos. It adds action: Indians, deadly fights, burning buildings, even the old trick where the condemned on the scaffold are saved by a violent interruption.
An affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences. In 1666 in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Puritans and the Algonquian have an uneasy truce. Hester Prynne (Demi Moore) arrives from England, seeking independence.
After a young widow (Demi Moore) has a child and refuses to name the father, a Puritan community forces her to wear the letter A, for adulteress.
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Oct 13, 1995 · Mr. Oldman's Dimmesdale is a hot-blooded hero and also kind to Indians. Hawthorne gave us Hester, a strong-willed woman of conscience whose husband disappeared long ago. Forced to wear a scarlet...
Oct 13, 1995 · Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend.
Oct 13, 1995 · The Scarlet Letter was widely derided by critics for sexualizing and changing Hawthorne's novel to an absurd degree. Characteristics. Moods. Only Human. Themes. Forbidden Love | Infidelity | Self-Destructive Romance. Keywords. bishop, extramarital-affair, forbidden-love, funeral, hypocrisy, Native-American, pregnancy, repression, romance, sex.
In 1666 Massachusetts, a woman who believes her husband to be dead, falls in love with a pastor, but trouble arises when her husband shows up. Cast & Crew. Read More. Roland Joffe. Director. Demi Moore. Gary Oldman. Robert Duvall. Joan Plowright. Judd Jones. Film Details. Also Known As. Passionens pris, Scarlet Letter. MPAA Rating. Genre.
