Demi Moore she told another interviewer, "I was 17 years old. I was underage. It was just the cover." Moore made her film debut with a brief role in the 1981 teen drama "Choices", directed by Silvio Narizzano. Her second film feature was the 3-D sci-fi horror film "Parasite" (1982), for which director Charles Band had instructed casting director Johanna Ray to "find me the next Karen Allen." Moore then joined the cast of the ABC soap opera "General Hospital", playing the role of an investigative reporter until 1983. During her tenure on the series, she made an uncredited cameo appearance in
Demi Moore were not widely seen, but Moore sustained her A-list status with her starring roles in Rob Reiner's "A Few Good Men" (1992), Adrian Lyne's "Indecent Proposal" (1993), and Barry Levinson's "Disclosure" (1994)—all of which opened at #1 at the box office and were blockbuster hits. By 1995, Moore was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood. However, critical acclaim subsequently began to wane with her subsequent film releases; her portrayal of Hester Prynne in "The Scarlet Letter" (1995), a "freely adapted" version of the historical romance novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was met with harsh criticism. While the coming-of-age drama "Now and Then"