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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5017188811187
Format: PAL
Number Of Discs: 1
Region Code: 2
Running Time: 135 minutes
Theatrical Release Date: October 13, 1995
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
In yet another example of Demi Moore's astonishing narcissism, this appalling adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Great American Novel becomes a teary, talk-show-worthy story of a woman rediscovering the erotic, of interrupted love, of a brave-but-beleaguered heroine's personal struggle against male stupidity. Never mind that this has little to do with Hawthorne's magnificent, protofeminist book, which is a million times more relevant today than this film could ever be. Director Roland Joffé (The Killing Fields) deserves to be horsewhipped for colluding with Moore's self-fascination, while Gary Oldman should be kicked in the pants for allowing the novel's main character to come off as an inconsequential ninny. Making matters worse, Robert Duvall can be seen ridiculously dancing with a deerskin on his head. If this film were a joke, it would be a very bad joke. But it's not, and that's worse. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - TRUE LOVE ALWAYS WINS
A LOVE STORY THAT MAKES YOU FEEL ALIVE AND FULL OF DESIRE TO LIVE AND LOVE
Rating:  - The Scarlet Letter
I went to see The Scarlet Letter twice in one week!!! Just loved Gary Oldman in this role. You will fall in love with him too. Brilliant and savage tale. Not to be missed.
Rating: - Picky picky
I don't understand why so many people are being so picky about this movie deviating from the book. I'm in the middle of reading the book right now. There is maybe a total of 10 minutes worth of action written into it and I'm not surprised that creative license needed to be taken for the screenplay.
I love the story line and the way the actors portrayed the deep and painful struggle between their hearts and the status quo of the times.
Gary Oldman is overwhelming in his role. I can't ... Read More
Rating:  - From perplexity to propaganda
When I saw the DVD box billing this as "An erotic tale of forbidden love!" I knew that this would be at least entertaining, if not actually good. I was right, but not in the way I thought. Instead of being "so bad it's good," (see: the Star Wars prequels, Troy, and the first Batman movie) this was a stunningly well-done piece of propaganda for contemporary social issues. The viewer presented with free love in the form of a passionate hookup with spiritual undertones, an eerily oppressive religious ... Read More
Rating:  - A Truly, TRULY, Terrible Movie Beginning To End!
I hope if O sama is captured by the US he is forced to sit through this movie ten times a day.
Demi More's laughable and yet still painfully boring production of The Scarlet Letter is simply one of the worst motion pictures ever made. It is not merely bad, but remarkably bad. I found it completely absurd, tedious, ludicrous, and felt it was "freely adapted" to the detriment of the depth of the original source. This feminist, new agey re-telling of a classic bears scant resemblance to the ... Read More
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