

The Scarlet Letter
When intimacy is forbidden and passion is a sin, love is the most defiant crime of all.
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $50M
- Box office
- $10.4M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- boston, massachusetts
- pregnancy
- witch burning
- puritan
- period drama
- extramarital affair
- 17th century
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR13 Oct 1995
BrazilBR
- Theatrical13 Oct 1995
- Digital / OTT16Star+31 Aug 2021
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical15+11 Apr 1996
FranceFR
- TheatricalU24 Apr 1996
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1217 Apr 1996
ItalyIT
- Theatrical20 Dec 1995
JapanJP
- TheatricalPG129 Dec 1995
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical189 Dec 1995
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The Scarlet Letter was released on 13 October 1995.
Audience reviews
2- C5/10
CinemaSerf
3/28/2022
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,…
- W8/10
Wuchak
6/10/2025
**_A glimpse of what it was like to live on the Northeast coast in the mid-1600s_** Hester Prynne arrives at the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1666 (Demi Moore) to set up a homestead in preparation for her husband. As she gets to know the local pastor, Arthur Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman), they get word of tragedy concerning her spouse (Robert Duvall). "The Scarlet Letter” (1995) is notorious for being one of the wors…
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