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Period drama about a woman who falls from grace when she is revealed to be pregnant by a man who is not her husband. Demi Moore stars as Hester Prynne, a young Puritan who refuses to name the father of her child - her husband is missing, presumed dead. Forced to wear a scarlet letter as a permanent reminder of her infidelity, Hester gives birth to a baby girl. Meanwhile, the real father of her child, Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman) is unjustly persecuting Hester, and her real husband (Robert Duvall), who has returned with a new identity, is out to find the man who gave her the baby in the first place...

Keywords:

Drama, Romance, Based-on-Novel, Movie, Film, Movies, Films

Additional Information:

(1995) (USA) (2 Star)

Cast:

Demi Moore	.... Hester Prynne
Gary Oldman	.... Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale
Robert Duvall	.... Roger Chillingworth
Lisa Joliffe-Andoh	.... Mituba
Edward Hardwicke	.... Gov. John Bellingham
Robert Prosky	.... Horace Stonehall

Supporting Cast:

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

Directors:

Roland Joffé

Writers:

Nathaniel Hawthorne
Douglas Day Stewart