When intimacy is forbidden and passion is a sin, love is the most defiant crime of all.
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. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.
- 6.1
- 1995
- Released
- 2h 15m
Demi Moore
Hester Prynne
Gary Oldman
Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Robert Duvall
Roger Chillingworth
Lisa 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
Larissa Laskin
Goody Mortimer
Amy Wright
Goody Gotwick
George Aguilar
Johnny Sassamon
Tim Woodward
Brewster Stonehall
Joan Gregson
Elizabeth Cheever
Dana Ivey
Meredith Stonehall
Diane Salinger
Margaret Bellingham
Jocelyn Cunningham
Mary RollingsSheldon Peters Wolfchild
Moskeegee
Eric Schweig
Metacomet
Kristin Fairlie
Faith StonehallSarah Campbell
Prudence StonehallJudd Jones
Mr. BobbinAnthony Paton
Town BeadleMarguerite McNeil
Widow WormserKennetch Charlette
Tarrantine Chief
Deborah Tennant
Quaker Lady
Kateri Walker
Female SachemShaun Clarke
Militia GuardsmanJay Carmichael
Militia GuardsmanJason Parkhill
First GuardsmanJeremy Keddy
Drummer Boy
Nicholas Rice
The Clerk
Len Doncheff
Trader
Evelyn Francis
Algonquin NativeGary Joseph
Native RiderStephen Micalchunk
Passenger #1
Jeremy Akerman
Middle Aged Passenger
Scout LaRue Willis
Pearl
Tallulah Willis
Baby Pearl
Jodhi May
Voice of Pearl (voice)
Released
en
$50,000,000.00
$10,382,407.00
- #based on novel or book
- #boston, massachusetts
- #pregnancy
- #witch burning
- #puritan
- #period drama
- #extramarital affair
- #17th century
Reviews
**_A glimpse of what it was like to live on the Northeast coast in the mid-1600s_** Hester Prynne arrives at the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1666 (Demi Moore) to set up a homestead in preparation for her husband. As she gets to know the local pastor, Arthur Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman), they get word of tragedy concerning her spouse (Robert Duvall). "The Scarlet Letter” (1995) is notorious for b
Heavens, but this is heavy going. Demi Moore is "Hester", sent on to a Massachusetts colony ahead of her husband to set up their new home. Determined to stand on her own two feet, she invites the enmity of the community by insisting on living on her own. Her only ally seems to be the preacher "Dimmesdale" (Gary Oldman) and he becomes more crucial when it looks like her husband has been killed in a