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The Crucible [Region 2] | ![The Crucible [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V3PRBWA5L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Nicholas Hytner
Actors: Daniel Day-lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison
Category: DVD
Buy New: $34.56
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Rating:  166 reviews
Sales Rank: 167829
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Running Time: 124 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5039036016933
ASIN: B0001K2KWK
Theatrical Release Date: November 27, 1996
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The Salem witch hunts are given a new and nasty perspective when a vengeful teenage girl uses superstition and repression to her advantage, creating a killing machine that becomes a force unto itself. Pulsating with seductive energy, this provocative drama is as visually arresting as it is intellectually engrossing. Arthur Miller based his classic 1953 play on the actual Salem witch trials of 1692, creating what has since become a durable fixture of school drama courses. It may look like a historical drama, but Miller also meant the work as a parable for the misery created by the McCarthy anti-Communist hearings of the 1950s. This searing version of his drama delves into matters of conscience with concise accuracy and emotional honesty. Three passionate cheers for Miller, director Nicholas Hytner, and costars Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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| Customer Reviews: Read 161 more reviews...
3 stars out of 4 May 6, 2009
One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor)
The Bottom Line:
Day-Lewis sometimes goes too far over the top ("Because it is my name!!!") and the actor playing Reverand Hale seems like he was ported in to Salem directly from the 1970s, but the successes of this film adaptation outweigh the failures and make this a movie worth seeing, if not a great one.
 Well made film, Poor history May 3, 2009
W L Milo (Austin, TX.)
Miller goes astray with his own imagination. This is a good looking film with easy to look at talent all around. The story however is pure Hollywood BS. What happened was an incident of a African slave teaching some local girls about her native spiritual customs which included using an ergot style drug. The resultant hallucinations and behavior so scared the heavily oppressive church officials that they quickly condemned to girls to death as witches, using a kangaroo court to scare and intimidate the people from any further experimenting.
 Ture to the spirit April 30, 2009
J. Valadez (Texas)
Although not in the same chronology the screen versions remains true to the spirit of the playwright. Arthur Miller of course wrote teh screenplay, but itlends itself to an interpretation worthy of the original drama.
Weighted down with learning March 19, 2009
R. Bagula (Lakeside, Ca United States)
One of the better movie adaptations of a classic 50's play.
With the deportation to Cuba of terrorist suspects, the USA like in the
red hunting of the 50's has a witch hunt in the early 21st century.
The difference between scholarly knowledge and real wisdom and understanding is pointed out by this theme. The Catch 22 effect of confessing to a lie
in order to save your life just makes one angry in watching this film at a systematic law that has no justice and real sense?
The hero of the movie dies by hanging
while reciting the Lord's prayer.
The acting is very good and believable, but the script is expanded and the wording changed from the play.
There are repeating themes in history and
one of them is groundless persecution of minorities
and those with different ideas or backgrounds from the ordinary.
 The Crucible December 21, 2008
Sharon E. Light Martinez
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The movie was in excellent shape but the delivery was extremely late. It tokk about 20 days.
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