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The Wright `Moll' for the '90s

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19960614
Author:Jay Carr, Globe Staff

MOLL FLANDERS Directed and written by: Pen Densham (novel: Daniel Defoe) Starring: Robin Wright, Morgan Freeman, Stockard Channing, John Lynch, Brenda Fricker, Geraldine James Playing at: Nickelodeon, Harvard Square, suburbs Rated: PG-13 (violence, nudity and sex-related material)

"Moll Flanders" is very much a woman of the '90s in Pen Densham's handsomely constructed production and Robin Wright's performance as a spirited survivor. While the film's look captures both the squalor and the splendor of 17th-century London, it departs very freely from Daniel Defoe's classic novel. The film ...

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