The Scarlet Letter was #6, with $4.1 million. Jade and The Scarlet Letter wound up grossing a combined $20.1 million in U.S. theaters; The Scarlet Letter alone cost $46 million.
In the years before October 13, 1995, the annual list of the biggest American films included one erotic thriller after another.
A few weeks later, the twin disasters of Jade and The Scarlet Letter helped seal the fate of R-rated erotic thrillers too.
Both films summarily bombed; that weekend, the #1 movie in theaters was David Fincher’s Se7en after a month of release.