The movie was just a classic view of what directors and producers think movie-goers want to see. It is really sad that it takes sex, gore, nudity, and rape to captivate an audience, but maybe that's just the difference between those who would actually take time to read a book, and those who would rather just watch a ridiculous "freely- adapted" version of it for 2 hours and 15 minutes.

I am now doin a report on Nathaniel Hawethorn and I find his writings truly fascinating. His courage to portray the mistakes and immoralities of our goverment's past is truly uplifting. But I find that the movie had little to do with the book. It simply couldnt grasp the concept of struggle and hypocrisy that was made so evident in the book. Unfortunately I am afraid that no movie could do for anyone what the book did. For the directors and producers are for lack of a better phraze 'not in tune with the arts'. They are too worried about tryin to capture the attention of thier watchers with sappy love stories than trying to portray a realistic view of a movie.What we need is producers with a more artistic comprehension of Screenplay- Ash

I have read the book and compared to this peice of crap called a movie, the bookis like god. The movie had nothing to do with the book, absolutely nothing. And Demi Moore needs to look up onher history a little more. She says that the book is boring and nobody reas it right, well I'd like to see her stupid wannabe self write a book. She know's nothing. I don't know what people see in that movie. Yuo should read the book, it's really good, expecially if you know the PPURITAN HISTORY. then you'll get the whole perspective of the book and it is so much more interesting then it is the first time you read it. Demi Moore is a terrible Hester Prynn. I have nothing against her, but shit, she needs to shut up when saying stuff she doesn't even know she saying.

The movie is alwful.

When Demi Moore was filming this farrago five years ago, she and director Roland Joffe said that in their opinion, there was nothing wrong with writing a free adaptation of Hawthorne's famous novel because "noone's ever read it!" Wrong! My Pa has a whole set of the "World's Greatest Literature" at home, which is kept on a bookshelf in my room, and includes the original masterpiece written by Hawthorne. There can be no doubt about it, the filmmakers true intention was to humiliate the source material, which is quite a common trend these days in Hollywood, and to insult the feminist movement as well. Well, thanks a lot, jerks. You ruined a perfectly good 17th century feminist novel. If Edward D. Wood Jr. had a multi-million dollar budget, and some [allegedly]top actors at his disposal, this is the kind of movie he would make. I just cannot believe those movie idiots could be so stupid and ridiculous. In any event, forget it.

I found the movie really very fasinated. It gave me the power to love someone,and an encourage. I had also read the book, but ?t differs from the movie. I must confess that I love the movie more.