Hollywood Hates History, Part 6: The Scarlet Letter (1995)

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History Unplugged

Society & Culture, History

4.2 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Demi Moore did not win any Academy Awards for her portrayal of 17th-century Puritan Hester Prynne. But she did succeed in transforming Nathaniel Hawthorne's famous moral drama into a Cinemax movie that also features Indians, deadly fights, burning buildings, flaming arrows, and a rousing speech in which Dimmsdale calls for sexual freedom. Dear listeners, this is not a good film.

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1:11.5	Welcome back to another exciting edition of where Scott and I talk about movies, historical
1:23.5	movies that we love and we hate. Today, we have a real gem, the Scarlet Letter from 1995,
1:32.4	starring Demi Moore as Hester Prynne, Gary Oldman as Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale,
1:41.6	Robert Duval as Roger Prynne, and a cast of others who are well known at least in their time
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