Directed by: Roland Joffe
Starring: Gary Oldman, Robert Duvall, Demi Moore, Lisa Andoh
Corrected entry: This film is a very loose adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.
Corrected entry: Demi Moore's husband shaves his hair off in one scene, then later on it's back to its normal length.
Correction: His hair changed because he put on a wig.
Factual error: In the final trial scene, held outdoors in the town center, tribunal members who are on the raised platform are shown sitting by or leaning on tables spread with small, Persian-style carpets. It is likely that the set designer based this choice on an early American painting, which does include many subjects posing with furniture thus bedecked; however, the practice of laying a carpet on a table was employed only when posing for an artist's portrait under particular pricing terms set for a commission. Artists charged their rich patrons based on a scale of bodily detail. The more limbs, the greater the price. (You've no doubt heard the related expression 'to cost an arm and a leg.') A composition from the waist up would be more affordable, but would necessarily exclude a prized carpet, which was an icon of personal affluence. So, the artist adapted and cleverly laid an admired carpet on a desk or table to satisfy the vain, yet thrifty patron.
Hester Prynne: I wonder if existance as a woman is worthwhile at all.
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Correction: Not trivia. It even says in the opening credits "Freely adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne", so it's really too obvious.