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The Crucible (1996) Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews   Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Movie Stills Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites Email this page to a friend   The Critics: B 8 reviews Start Rating Movies Now! Sign In or sign up Yahoo! Users: B- 1431 ratings Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. Perched on the edge of a continent is a community dedicated to the service of God. A gang of teenage girls, stifled by the crushing piety of their elders, dance naked in the woods. One girl, Abigail Williams -- her innocence lost in the bed of John Proctor, a married farmer -- drinks a charm to kill his wife. And suddenly, the Devil is loose in Salem. The girls are discovered... See Full Description Genres: Drama and Adaptation Running Time: 2 hrs. 3 min. Release Date: November 29, 1996 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Distributors: 20th Century Fox U.S. Box Office: $7,340,103 See Full Details Cast and Credits Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison Directed by: Nicholas Hytner Produced by: Robert A. Miller, David V. Picker, Diana Pokorny See Full Cast and Credits Critical Consensus Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B    Austin Chronicle, Marjorie Baumgarten "...the story's slant seems less overtly political and rather more focused on sexual power and repression..." more... C Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert "The Crucible is a drama of ideas, but they seem laid on top of the material, not organically part of it." more... C E! Online, "(Winona) Ryder and (Joan) Allen shine amid the witch-hunt intrigue..." more... A- Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan "...too frantic to be involving, too much an outpost of bedlam to be believable." more... C More Critics Reviews... Sponsored Links (What's This?)