An affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences.An affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences.An affair between a young woman and a pastor has disastrous consequences.
- Awards
- 1 win & 10 nominations
Lisa Andoh
- Mituba
- (as Lisa Joliffe-Andoh)
James Bearden
- Goodman Mortimer
- (as Jim Bearden)
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- TriviaComposer Elmer Bernstein reportedly wrote a letter to Demi Moore thanking her for rejecting his music score for this movie, so that he could use it to score a better movie. Moore was involved in getting John Barry to write the final score, because she wanted a score like the one he did for the romantic, and very successful Out of Africa (1985).
- GoofsNicholas Rice is credited as playing the clerk, but the role was actually played by someone else.
- SoundtracksAgnus Dei
(Based on Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings")
Performed by Robert Shaw and the Robert Shaw Festival Singers
(Adm. by G. Schirmen Inc. (ASCAP))
Courtesy of Telarc International Corporation
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The Scarlet Letter
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 shipwreck and when, shortly thereafter, she becomes pregnant. Determined not to reveal the identity of the father, she endures the disdain from her somewhat puritanical neighbours and both her and her daughter are shunned. Suddenly, enter Robert Duvall ("Roger") her long lost, and not very likeable, husband who decides that vengeance shall be his - and a burning might soon be in the offing. Despite an half decent cast, with some very solid supporting characters from the likes of Edward Hardwicke and Joan Plowright, the story is stolid in it's delivery. The opportunities to illustrate and expose the superstitious and hypocritical standards of the day; of the population who lived in a male-dominated, god-fearing society are lost in a stodgy dialogue with repetitive scenarios that look good, but take the story forward with the speed of a rhino stuck in treacle. This suffered from too much resource, too long a filming schedule and a very weakly delivered narrative and at the end I may well have volunteered myself for the flames.
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- Also known as
- Kırmızı leke
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Box office
- Budget
- $46,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $10,382,407
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,119,086
- Oct 15, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $10,382,407
- Runtime2 hours 15 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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