The Scarlet Letter (1995 film)

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The Scarlet Letter

When intimacy is forbidden and passion is a sin, love is the most defiant crime of all.
Directed by Roland Joffé
Produced by Robert Colesberr
Jonathan Cornick
Dodi Fayed
Roland Joffé
Tova Laiter
Andrew G. Vajna
Written by Douglas Day Stewart based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Starring Demi Moore
Gary Oldman
Robert Duvall
Music by John Barry
Cinematography Alex Thomson
Editing by Thom Noble
Distributed by Hollywood Pictures
Cinergi Pictures
Release date(s) October 13, 1995
Running time 135 minutes
Language English
Budget US$50,000,000
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The Scarlet Letter is the 1995 film version of the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, The Scarlet Letter. It was directed by Roland Joffé. This version was "freely adapted" from Hawthorne (according to the opening credits) and took many liberties with the original story including the addition of Mituba, a character based on Tituba from The Crucible and features a happy ending. It was filmed in Shelburne and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. It won the Golden Raspberry Award for worst remake or sequel and was nominated for worst picture. It was also a box office bomb upon its release grossing only $10.3 million out of an estimated $50 million dollar budget.

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