The Scarlet Letter

Starring:Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Lisa Joliffe-Andoh, Edward Hardwicke, Robert Prosky, Roy Dotrice, Joan Plowright, Malcolm Storry, James Bearden, Larissa Laskin, Amy Wright, George Aguilar, Tim Woodward, Joan Gregson, Dana Ivey, Diane Salinger, Jocelyn Cunningham, Francie Swift, Sheldon Peters Wolfchild
Director: Roland Joffé
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Product Type: DVD

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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

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Sexy Demi Moore (DISCLOSURE, INDECENT PROPOSAL) heats up this powerfully sensual story of illicit love! In a time when adultery is punishable by death, Hester Prynne (Moore) becomes involved in a risky and scandalous affair with her town's handsome minister (Gary Oldman -- MURDER IN THE FIRST). But when their secret passion results in a child, Hester is confronted with the town's overwhelming scorn ... and is condemned to forever wear the scarlet letter "A" as a public brand of shame! A highly provocative retelling of the classic tale of forbidden love, THE SCARLET LETTER combines a sizzling story with exciting stars and delivers must-see entertainment.

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The Scarlet Letter
Starring: Josef Sommer , Meg Foster , Elisa Erali , John Heard , and Ralph Drischell
Director: Rick Hauser
Manufacturer: Wgbh Boston
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00008DDS0
Release Date: 2003-03-04

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An epic version of Nathaniel Hawthorne's enduring novel of Puritan America in search of its soul. Hester Prynne overcomes the stigma of adultery to emerge as the first great heroine in American literature. Hawthorne's themes—the nature of sin, social hypocrisy and community repression—still reverberate through American society. Stars Meg Foster, John Heard and Kevin Conway. Directed by Rick Hauser.

Special DVD features include: special video segments that take viewrrs behind-the-scenes on the filming of The Scarlet Letter; select cast filmographies; a Hawthorne biography; discussion questions for educators; scene selection; English audiotrack; and closed captions.

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Taking its place alongside many of the screen's classic thrillers of the 1930s, The Scarlet Letter has never been seen in a high quality version on home video... until now. Though inspired by one of the all-time classic novels, the story told here is as bizarre as any told by Hollywood as revenge-crazed madman Chillingworth proves to be one of the of the movies' greatest figures of the macabre. In Puritan New England, an era of torture and witch burnings, Chillingworth's mind snaps upon hearing of his wife's adultery and illegitimate child. This man of medicine becomes a "mad doctor" and uses his insane power over people's minds and bizarre medical treatments to attain his vengeance. Having lived with Indian tribes, the doctor possesses a knowledge of weird, primitive drugs, which he uses to torture his victims -- such as a peculiar plant harvested from a dead man's corpse in a graveyard, used to torture the Reverend Dimmesdale in one of the eeriest sequences. This classic 1934 film was the first sound version of the great American masterpiece by Nathaniel Hawthorne and was produced on a spectacular scale, now specially restored for the first time from the 3mm nitrate original camera negative.

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Starring: Helen Hayes , Gary Cooper , Adolphe Menjou , Mary Philips , and Jack La Rue
Director: Frank Borzage , Jack Conway , and William A. Wellman
Manufacturer: Rph Productions
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Manufacturer: East West Entertainment
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ASIN: B000KQMH7S

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Two classic films on one DVD. In THE SCARLET LETTER during the seventeenth century Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock. In THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL London fop Percy Blakeney is also secretly the Scarlet Pimpernel who in a variety of disguises, makes repeated daring trips to France to save aristrcrats from Madame Guillotine.

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Manufacturer: Global Entertainment
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Highly stylized and interactive -- with chapter summaries, in-depth analyses and pop quizzes -- Rocketbook DVD Study Guides are the ideal companion for the modern student's reading experience. Nathaniel Hawthornes, The Scarlet Letter tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young Puritan woman who has violated the laws of Colonial Boston. As punishment she is ordered to wear the Scarlet Letter of an adulterer for the rest of her life. First published in 1850, The Scarlet Letter solidified Nathaniel Hawthorne as one of the most treasured authors of his time.

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