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CRUCIBLE

Director:

  Nicholas  Hytner
  

Year Released:

  1996

Jan's Rating:

Rich's Rating:

3.5 out of 5

3.5 out of 5

Key Performances:

  Joan Allen
  Daniel Day-Lewis
  Jeffrey Jones
  Winona Ryder
  Paul Scofield
Movie Haiku:Adaptation by screenwriter Arthur Miller of one of his greatest plays, in which the Salem Witch Trials are used to analyze the hysteria of the McCarthy period. When the cloud of suspicion falls on them (however unjustly), people invent monstrous lies about their neighbors in order to save themselves.

ADDITIONAL FF2 INFO ABOUT THIS FILM:

Women filmmakers?

  No

Jewish content?

  No

Haiku Posted:

  2005