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Article: It's hard to find Defoe's Moll in adapted `Flanders'.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Movies)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 14, 1996
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The phrase "freely adapted" was invoked by the hapless collaborators who envisioned Demi Moore as a compelling excuse to take anachronistic liberties with Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter." Though not as grandiosely delusional - or absurdly diverting - as that travesty, Pen Densham's elaborately lackluster meditation on bits and pieces of Daniel Defoe's "Moll Flanders" also fails to keep adequate faith with a formidable literary source.
According to the credits, Mr. Densham's screenplay is "based on the character from the novel by Daniel Defoe." However, the resemblances between Defoe's tarnished memoirist, whose misadventures included several years ...
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Article: Moll Flanders (12, 122mins).(Features)
The Mirror (London, England);
May 8, 1997 ;
348 words
...Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders is a rollicking ... original story, Hibble (Morgan Freeman) takes Moll Flander ... t and the idea of Moll Flanders with a 12 certificate ... impossible to make Moll Flanders pretentious and deadly ...
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