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When intimacy is forbidden and passion is a sin, love is the most defiant crime of all.

Oct 13,1995

Hollywood Movies | Drama | Romance | History

Ratings: 5.4 / 10 from

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Length: 135 Minute(s)
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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nudity 7/10 One of the movie's main themes is cheating. The focus of the story is the passionate and forbidden relationship between a married woman and a reverend. There aren't any explicit details, but sexual contents are present, as well as several scenes of nudity. A man and a woman make love. The scene is romantic and not explicit. This adultery causes the woman's pregnancy. She is later seen giving birth. A servant girl masturbates with a candle inside a bathtub, but it is only implied. She undresses (bare breasts and butt are seen), then enters the bathtub. A man is fully naked while swimming. His bare buttocks are seen as well as his pubic area. A woman is watching him. There is a sideview of a woman who is completely naked. She turns around and her buttocks are partially visible. Later her left breast and erect nipple are visible. A man forcibly kisses a woman and she slaps him. Some native indian women are seen topless. A man is naked while shaving his chest. His bare butt is seen briefly. There are two attempted rape scenes with very little nudity.
violence 7/10 Two sequences of native indians killing many people take place. The first sequence is brief, and shows a man's throat being cut and scalps being taken off. The second is longer and includes: a man getting pierced by an arrow in his throat, a man getting killed with an axe, men having their throats slit, explosions, beatings and shootings. Some blood is seen in both sequences. A mad man has half of his head inside a dead deer's belly while dancing. Some blood is seen. A man is found killed. Before that we see a scene of the man who killed him, cutting his throat and taking off his scalp (offscreen). A girl is found killed. A man is beaten up by indians. A woman hits a man who forcibly kissed her. A woman gives birth. A man is almost hang in public, but the execution is stopped and he escapes. There are two attempted rape scenes. In one, a girl is almost raped by two men, but they are stopped. In the other, a woman is assaulted by a man on a table; she then manages to hit him in the eye with a burning candle. He screams in pain, she gets up and threathens him with a gun. He leaves. A man is rude towards his wife.
profanity 4/10 Some rude language, especially towards a woman, and racial offences towards native indians.
alcohol 3/10 A man smokes with a pipe twice during the movie. A drunk woman is seen drinking from a bottle.
frightening 5/10 The film has several dramatic scenes, and two fairly intense sequences of attacks and killings by the native indians. A woman is mistreated, insulted and humiliated throughout the movie, and two attempted rapes are present. Total: 26/50 - For ages 14 and up (sexuality and nudity, mature themes, some violence).

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