Demi Moore said "Not many people have read the book." She certainly hasn't because when I was in High School, it was required reading in Junior English. I know that when I read it, I couldn't put it down, and I tutored a student in literature for a few summers as extra credit and one summer we read this and Jane Eyre. This ghastly movie has very little to do with Hawthorne's masterpiece, except for character names and possibly some of the plot elements. Women in Puritan America would never have been allowed to show their ankles or dress as provocatively as the costumes in this turkey. Don't waste your time. There are better versions, such as the Colleen Moore and especially the 1926 Lillian Gish production. See one of those instead!
Review of The Scarlet Letter
