Moll Flanders is a 1996 film starring Robin Wright Penn and Morgan Freeman. The film was directed by Pen Densham. It is based on the novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe.
A young girl is picked up from an London orphanage and is told the story of her mother's (Moll Flanders) life on the way to the American Colonies.
Based on reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, Moll Flanders currently has a 47% approval rating from critics. A problem many crit...
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Moll Flanders is a 1996 film starring Robin Wright Penn and Morgan Freeman. The film was directed by Pen Densham. It is based on the novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe.
A young girl is picked up from an London orphanage and is told the story of her mother's (Moll Flanders) life on the way to the American Colonies.
Based on reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, Moll Flanders currently has a 47% approval rating from critics. A problem many critics had was with the movie largely throwing out the original Dafoe story and structuring it like Forrest Gump (in which Penn was prominently featured).
Roger Ebert gave the movie three stars and said of the film "it's an original; Densham took only the name, the period, and a few notions from Defoe, and has made up the rest."
The International Press Academy nominated Moll Flanders for four awards: Robin Wright Penn for Best Actress in a Drama, John Lynch for Supporting Actor in a drama, Stockard Channing for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama,...
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