Moll Flanders . Tucson Weekly . 06-27-96

Moll Flanders

DIRECTED BY: Pen Densham

REVIEWED: 06-27-96

This marathon of a period movie, based loosely on the novel by Daniel Defoe, is plagued by a corny script and is just annoying in general. Moll Flanders (Robyn Wright) is an 18th-century independent spirit, poor and alone, trying to make her way in the cold, hard world. It seems the only two choices she has are the convent and the whorehouse, and she tries them both without much success. The dialogue in this movie is atrocious, as is the gut-wrenchingly dramatic plot. A special throne of badness is reserved here for the extremely annoying, other-worldly music that tortures the viewer subliminally for the first half of the movie. A few fine actors, including Stockard Channing, do their best to enliven this film, to no avail.

--Stacey Richter

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