Watch The Scarlet Letter (1995) Online

In the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1667, there is an uneasy truce between Puritans and Algonquian. Hester Prynne arrives overseas from England, seeking independence. She waits for her husband, befriending Quakers and setting up a home. As time passes, she falls for a young minister, who feels the same way about her. When they hear the news that her husband has most likely been killed by Native Americans ("Indians"), they engage in a relationship. When she becomes pregnant, Hester is imprisoned, where her daughter is born, and later publicly humiliated by being forced to wear a scarlet "A" for adultery. A drummer boy is ordered to follow her whenever she comes to town.

On the same day, her husband reappears with Indians, after a year's absence. Going by the name of "Dr. Chillingworth", he stirs fears of witchcraft, while seeking out Hester's lover in order to extract his revenge. As his plans are done, he attacks and scalps a man riding to town from Hester's house, disguised as Indian. Once the villagers discover this cruelty, they blame it on the Indians and bring them all to a public place to judge them. Seeing this scene, Hester's husband understands his fault and its severe results. He hangs himself in his room.

When the minister wants to talk to him, he discovers his dead body hanging from the roof of the room. He runs back to town and offers his throat instead of Hester's, admitting that he is the father of the child.

When he is about to be put to death, the Indians save him and Hester, and a battle between them and the villagers starts.

We see Hester's little daughter Pearl playing with the scarlet letter patch. After visiting Hester's husband's grave, they all leave on a horse-driven buggy. Pearl drops the scarlet "A" on the ground.

Then finally before the end credits Pearl reveals that her father dies before she becomes a teenager and that Hester never remarried. She asks God, what is a sin in his eyes.

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