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The Scarlet Letter
1995
· Movie
· 135 min
F
MEANRANK
49/100
Every rating
13–71
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 13, highest is Kinopoisk on 71. Critics average 13, everyone else 56.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In a strict 17th-century Puritan settlement, a woman is forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' on her dress as a punishment for adultery and for refusing to name the father of her child. She must endure public shaming and live as an outcast, displaying quiet strength.
Details
- Director
- Roland Joffé
- Writer
- Douglas Day Stewart
- Based on
- a work by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Released
- 13 October 1995
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 135 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $50.0M
- Box office
- $10.4M
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