Review of The Scarlet Letter (1995) by West K — 27 Aug 2006

Call it a guilty pleasure, but I can't get over the fabulous Gary Oldman in this film!

This review of The Scarlet Letter (1995) was written by West K on 27 Aug 2006.

The Scarlet Letter has generally received mixed reviews.

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By David A (1,816) on 23 Nov 2009

(from The Watermark 10/13/95) THE SCARLET LETTER (Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall): Moore plays the most famously impure of all Puritans,…

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By Blake D (250) on 11 Jan 2012

This is one of my favorite guilty pleasure films. Gary Oldman is superb in his role. There is an amazingly erotic love scene…

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By Saman G (71) on 29 Jan 2010

This is not an objective or professional film review. not this one, no. all the stars because it resurrected my sense for romance…

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By Jennifer M (1,179) on 06 May 2010

Not good at all. I like Gary Oldman, but he has been in some of the worst movies ever made. the book was even more boring then the film…

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By Carla K (45) on 13 Feb 2012

I give it two stars because this is a really great movie hidden underneath a really terrible one. The script is just atrocious…

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I think that perhaps people are judging it in comparison to the book…

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A good movies, but a HORRIBLE adaptation of Hawthorne's classic novel…

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By Shaun W (139) on 09 Jun 2013

M'eh. Demi Moore was a poor choice to star in this classic story…

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