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Submitted by: Peas and Carrot Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison Directed by: Nicholas Hytner Genre: Drama This film is based on the Arthur Miller's play called, you guessed it, The Crucible. Interestingly, Arthur Miller (already 80+ when the movie went into production) himself wrote the screenplay adaptation. We won't go into the plot, as many may recall the story line from the days of high school and/or college English (if you didn't read it for English, we'll give you a hint: its about the Puritan witch hunt trials). While the movie is an accurate enough reproduction of the original, we cannot recommend the kids of today to watch it as a substitute for classroom reading. Now, there is nothing to complain about in terms of acting, as Winona and Daniel did as good of a job as one can ask. Daniel (playing the role of the adulterous John Proctor) was convincingly rugged, and Winona (Abby Williams) displayed such evil traits that made it easy for the audience, even Peas, to hate her. The two originally had high hopes of Oscar nominations for their work, but neither brought home the award (we aren't certain about this, but we believe neither was even nominated). Aside from the two central character, our other favorites include Joan Allen (Goody Proctor) and Rob Campbell (Reverend Hale); a suggestion to you: don't watch Face Off before this, since during the entire movie Peas mentally referred to Joan Allen as John Travolta's wife, heh. Good things aside, we were repulsed by the beating of Tituba from Barbados, the scene made Peas utter, "Forrest, why did this happen?" The movie was good, yes, but it's not something over which we could scream or shrill with excitement. For this reason, and of course the Tituba beating, we give movie 3.5 Go's.  
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