of Yarmouth, Shelburne, and in the small village of Saint Alphonse in Clare in 1994. In Shelburne, the waterfront area was substantially altered to resemble a Puritan New England town in the mid-17th century. Some of the buildings on Dock Street retain the grey-tone paint finishes used for the film. Score Two original scores were written for this film. Ennio Morricone provided some early demos based on his prior work with Joffé on The Mission, but nothing original was recorded with an orchestra. A rejected score was composed by Elmer Bernstein, but his music was set aside in lieu of the final score, composed by John Barry. Reportedly, star Demi Moore wanted a score by Barry from the start (based on the composer's work on Indecent Proposal), so Bernstein's music was not going to be accepted, regardless of quality. Barry's score was released on CD by Sony Records upon the film's release in 1995. A CD of Bernstein's rejected score was released by Varèse Sarabande in 2008. Reception The Scarlet Letter met with overwhelmingly negative reviews. Washington Post writer Amy E. Schwartz observed the critical reaction to the "nutty" film: "Phrases like 'unintentionally funny' and 'unwittingly hilarious' have gotten a considerable workout, along with variations on the judgment pronounced by the woman who was two seats away... and who, when the lights went up, cried, 'That's got to be the worst movie I've ever seen'." More forgiving was Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle, who found it to be a "well-acted, beautiful movie", despite the "syrupy orchestral score" and "big liberties taken with Hawthorne's story". Multiple critics named the film the worst of 1995; Deseret News writer Chris Hicks argued that its deviation from the source material represents "Hollywood's arrogance in its purest form". It won Worst Remake or Sequel at the 1995 Golden Raspberry Awards, receiving further nominations for Worst Actress (Moore), Worst Supporting Actor (Duvall), Worst Screen Couple (Moore and either Duvall or Oldman), Worst Director, Worst Picture, and Worst Screenplay. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave The Scarlet Letter a grade of "B" on a scale of A+ to F, but the film was not successful at the box office, grossing $35 million against a production budget of $46 million. In a retrospective article, Kevin Williamson of National Review observed a "combination of awfulness and inexplicability", and claimed that "any objective and authoritative analysis will reveal that