Release Date: 6/1/2004 Original Release: 1996 Format: DVD Length: 123 minutes Rating:PG-13 (MPAA) Rating Reason: (Reason unavailable) UPC: 024543108252 Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainm
Dramas, Law/Lawyers, Occult, Religion, Stage Play, Injustice, Recommended, Character Study, Period Piece, Clergy, Scandal, Theatrical Release
Description
A powerful adaptation of the classic stage play about a Puritan community in seventeenth century Massachusetts awash in guilt, denial, and hysteria when a ring of lustful teenage girls begins accusing its citizens of witchcraft. When one man fights to retain his integrity in the face of madness, the adolescent slander invariably extends to him. Based on actual historic events and meant as a metaphor for the paranoid persecutions of the McCarthy era, the story (re-penned for the screen by playwright Arthur Miller) is a parable about society's fascination with and revulsion for cultural scandal.
DVD Features
Region 1 Keep Case Widescreen - 1.85 Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Surround - French, Spanish Subtitles - English, Spanish - optional Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary: Nicholas Hytner - Director, Arthur Miller - Writer Trailers: Theatrical Trailer Featurette: 1. Original EPK 2. "A Conversation with Daniel Day-Lewis and Arthur Miller"
Title: The Crucible Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison Directed By: Nicholas Hytner Produced By: Robert A. Miller, David V. Picker, Diana Pokorny... Read the whole review at MatchFlick
