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Release year: 2002

Storyline

A masterful work accurately details the current consensus of what exactly occurred to prompt the colonial witch trials.

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Directors

Joseph Sargent

Writers

Maria Nation

Cast

Kirstie Alley — Ann Putnam
Henry Czerny — Rev. Samuel Parris
Gloria Reuben — Tituba Indian
Jay O. Sanders — Thomas Putnam

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• Epilogue: "In January of 1693, Sir William Phips reprieved the sentences of all the remaining witches awaiting execution." "In all 20 innocent people were killed. Tituba Indian, unable to pay her prison fees, remained in jail until she was sold to a new home." "The impact of the Salem witch trials was so profound that it brought down an entire way of life, marking the end of puritanism and the beginning of what would eventually become America." "At the insistence of their descendants, the last five of those accused of witchcraft were officially pardoned by the state of Massachusetts on October 31, 2001."

• Prologue: "Ten months earlier...Winter, 1691. Salem Village, Massachusetts Colony. It is 71 years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, and England has not yet signed a formal charter." "The New World, still a wilderness frontier, has no clear governing body." "The winters are bitterly cold, there is little food or dry wood to burn, and hostile Indians threatened the small outpost of settlers." "The only existing law is provided by the Puritan Church, which demands that individual sins be cleared through public humiliation." "Into this world a handful of girls are about to unleash a terror so great that it will forever curse the town of Salem."

• Kirstie Alley and Jay O. Sanders also starred together in For Richer or Poorer (1997).