The Scarlet Letter Rating: Release Date: 25 February, 2003 Retail Price: $29.95 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $2.96! Cast: Meg Foster George Foster George Sanders John Heard Complete Cast (5 total)

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Help students visualize
Though there are some differences between the novel and this version of the movie, they are minor and do not interfere with meaning. My students were discussing character development, viewing scenes from the movie helped them see the characters as more than words on paper.

I beg to Differ, But . . .
True, Hawthorne's novel deserves a full-out treatment, but not one as plodding and slow as this. We all know the complexities of the novel - we are not reviewing that, but rather a version that is at least an 1 1/2 hours too long. The pacing is deadly, the set - a view of Boston in 1650 - looks like Peabody in 1625. 14 people gather around Hester after her 9 foot walk to the public scaffold. The whole production seems smallish.

And I'm sorry, but Meg Foster's eyes are so weirdly other-worldish that I couldn't concentrate on much else.

This production gets a Scarlet C-.

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