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The Crucible
In the British city of Salem, specifically in 1692, a girl fascinated by the biggest crime of a married man and insists on getting rid of his innocent wife through the magic she did in a forest. The girl tried to do that magic because she was so fascinated by the man that he seemed to be her former lover. When her lover's wife learned about the magic of that girl she decided to fight a new battle to save her blood and her husband from this dreaded magic that would destroy their lives completely.
28 September 1946, Buffalo, New York, USA
13 March 1984, Vermillion, South Dakota, USA
5 November 1962, California, USA
21 January 1922, Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, England, UK
29 March 1930, Middlefield, USA
August 28, 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
January 26, 2016
Plodding film based on play has mature themes, sex, violence
May 17, 2013
The story's sickening spiral into madness is preserved.
May 17, 2013
Her cheeks flush, her winsome beauty seared with erotic rage, Ryder exposes the real roots of the piece. Forget McCarthyism; The Crucible is a colonial Fatal Attraction.
May 17, 2013
The story is unchanged, but its theme relates surprisingly well to today's versions of the bias and scapegoating that Miller rightly deplores.
May 17, 2013
Arthur Miller's screenplay keeps everything nice and faithful to the period, and the actors have the dirt on their hands to prove it. The movie lacks polish as well, and that's to everyone's benefit.
May 17, 2013
I recommend Hytner's movie highly, but a part of me resists a work that makes the audience feel as noble in our moral certainty as the characters it invites us to deplore. Some part of its power seems borrowed from the thing it hates.
May 17, 2013
I very much admire how Hytner... keeps the pace swift and doesn't fetishize the 17th-century decors and clothes. But I can't help feeling that in more ways than one, The Crucible is a period piece.
May 17, 2013
Too bad, though, that The Crucible fails to probe deeper into the sexual, religious, and political conditions that can give false accusations so much power -- even today.
May 17, 2013
A McCarthy-era retelling of the Salem witch trials, Arthur Miller's 1953 play is a literary classic, but this adap falls short.
May 17, 2013
The physical production of the film is so authentic and compelling, you can't get beyond it, not for a second.
May 17, 2013
Then there's always Mr. Scofield, bringing an almost unbearable, yet entirely believable, lightness of spirit to his loathsome character. It's a bold stroke by a great actor, making zealotry and evil seem positively beneficent.
May 17, 2013
An intelligent and gripping epic.

