Posted on 20/12/96
FILM REVIEW
Written by Arthur Miller Starring Winona Ryder, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Scofield and Joan Allen Classification: AA Rating **½Hollywood hath no furyThe Crucible has religious pretensions,but it's really a Fatal Attraction for the 1600s.Film Critic HIE ye heathen. The new filmed version of The Crucible, Arthur Miller's 1953 play, is filled with enough of the devil's kindling to set lustful hearts aflame. Bare-breasted teen-aged girls in the wood drink blood and invoke Satan's name. The fair Winona Ryder, as the hot little Puritan, Abigail Williams, with her cheeks ruddy, nostrils flared and eyes aglow, stares at the farmer John Proctor (Daniel Day-Lewis) the way a starving mastiff might regard a Gainesburger.
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