Information
| Year: | 1995 |
| Rating: | 4.6(6142) |
| Listed in: | Drama, Romance |
| Directed by: | Roland Joffé |
| Actors: | Gary Oldman Robert Duvall Edward Hardwicke Robert Prosky Demi Moore Lisa Andoh |
| "When intimacy is forbidden and passion is a sin, love is the most defiant crime of all." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Roland Joffé | |
| Actors | |
| Gary Oldman | as Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale |
| Robert Duvall | as Roger Chillingworth |
| Edward Hardwicke | as Gov. John Bellingham |
| Robert Prosky | as Horace Stonehall |
| Roy Dotrice | as Rev. Thomas Cheever |
| Malcolm Storry | as Maj. Dunsmuir |
| James Bearden | as Goodman Mortimer |
| George Aguilar | as Johnny Sassamon |
| Tim Woodward | as Brewster Stonehall |
| Sheldon Peters Wolfchild | as Moskeegee |
| Eric Schweig | as Metacomet |
| Judd Jones | as Mr. Bobbin |
| Anthony Paton | as Town Beadle |
| Kennetch Charlette | as Tarrantine Chief |
| Shaun R. Clarke | as Militia Guardsman |
| Jay Carmichael | as Militia Guardsman |
| Jason Parkhill | as First Guardsman |
| Jeremy Keddy | as Drummer Boy |
| Nicholas Rice | as The Clerk |
| Len Doncheff | as Trader |
| Stephen Aderneck | as Speaking Native |
| Gary Joseph | as Native Rider |
| Stephen Micalchunk | as Passenger #1 |
| Jeremy Akerman | as Middle Aged Passenger |
| Jerry Hamm | as Militia Captain |
| David Kehoe | as Extra |
| Mike Skutt | as Metacomet's son |
| Actresses | |
| Demi Moore | as Hester Prynne |
| Lisa Andoh | as Mituba |
| Joan Plowright | as Harriet Hibbons |
| Larissa Laskin | as Goody Mortimer |
| Amy Wright | as Goody Gotwick |
| Joan Gregson | as Elizabeth Cheever |
| Dana Ivey | as Meredith Stonehall |
| Diane Salinger | as Margaret Bellingham |
| Jocelyn Cunningham | as Mary Rollings |
| Kristin Fairlie | as Faith Stonehall |
| Sarah Campbell | as Prudence Stonehall |
| Marguerite McNeil | as Widow Wormser |
| Deborah Tennant | as Quaker Lady |
| Kateri Walker | as Female Sachem |
| Ashley Nolan | as Goody Hunter |
| Evelyn Francis | as Algonquin Native |
| Scout LaRue Willis | as Young Pearl |
| Tallulah Belle Willis | as Infant Pearl |
| Jodhi May | as Pearl |
| Line Pelletier | as Peasant |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 7 August 1994 - 21 November 1994 |
| Budget: | USD 50,000,000 |
| Plot: | New England in the 17th century: Young Hester Prynne arrives at the colony with the purpose to find a house for herself and her husband, old doctor Roger Prynne, who still resides in good old England and will follow later. From the first day the other inhabitants of the village notice that Hester is intelligent and independent, which attracts the ones and strucks the others. When she, however, finds herself a house near the forest and takes a walk in it she sees by chance a naked young man swimming in the river nearby. The man, as she finds out later, is the very popular Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale. The two soon find themselves attracted to each other and secretly begin an affair. As the result of this Hester becomes pregnant and when the government finds out, she is showed up in public and has to wear a scarlet "A" as "adultery" on her chest. Because of this but also because she refuses to tell the name of her child's father, she goes into jail where she gives birth to her daughter, Pearl. Then, surprisingly, Roger Prynne, whose ship was supposed to have been destroyed in a storm with no survivors, appears in the village. The doctor is now driven by the idea to find out who was Hester's lover and destroy his life, as well as the life of Hester. |
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Original Soundtracks
| "Agnus Dei" (Based on Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings") Performed by Robert Shaw and the Robert Shaw Festival Singers (Adm. by G. Schirmen Inc. (ASCAP)) Courtesy of Telarc International Corporation |
Goofs
| Fact errors: Nicholas Rice is credited as playing the clerk, but the role was actually played by someone else. |
Quotes
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Hester Prynne: I have dreamed of speaking my heart, I have prayed for it even as I have dreaded it. Was I alive before I laid eyes on thee? Dr. Roger Prynne: Has this new land turned thee into a heathen? Hester Prynne: I wonder if existance as a woman is worthwhile at all. [to the crowd gathered for Hester's hanging] Reverand Arthur Dimmesdale: In God's eyes, I am her husband. Pearl: [voiceover] Who is to say what is a sin in God's eyes. Hester Prynne: [the elder is about to pin the A on her blousse] Why do you wait? Put it on, for it is not a badge of my sin but your own. Pearl: My father died before I reached my teens. Some say that was a punishment. My mother never remarried or loved another. Some say THAT was a punishment. Brewster Stonehall: So... you fucked a minister, eh? Oh, what my father would pay for THAT priceless morsel! |
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