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It's hard to find Defoe's Moll in adapted `Flanders'.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Movies)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960614
Author:Arnold, Gary

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 ...

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