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Genres:
Romance, Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Language:
English
Subtitles:
English
Running time:
1:45:25
Partner rating:
R
Released:
Quality:
480 (DVD equivalent)

Cast & Crew

Cast

  1. Nicole Kidman Faunia Farley
  2. Anthony Hopkins Coleman Silk
  3. Ed Harris Lester Farley
  4. Gary Sinise Nathan Zuckerman
  5. Wentworth Miller Coleman Silk as a young man
  6. Jacinda Barrett Steena Paulsson
  7. Harry J. Lennix Mr. Silk
  8. Clark Gregg Nelson Primus
  9. Anna Deavere Smith Mrs. Silk
  10. John Cenatiempo Boxer

Directors

  1. Robert Benton

Producers

  1. Tom Rosenberg
  2. Gary Lucchesi
  3. Scott Steindorff

Writers

  1. Nicholas Meyer

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The Human Stain

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For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal Attraction co-scribe Nicholas Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, The Human Stain stars Anthony Hopkins as Coleman Silk, a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some... For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal Attraction co-scribe Nicholas Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, The Human Stain stars Anthony Hopkins as Coleman Silk, a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeper and deeper into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when an affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman) is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming public. Ed Harris, who previously worked with Benton in 1984's Places in the Heart, also stars.

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Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes

Scored 'rotten' by Rotten Tomatoes

43%Tomatometer score: 43% positive reviews from professional critics.

percent positive reviews

  1. Negative review
    Stella Papamichael, BBC With all the legs flailing, earnest speechifying, hot-headed outbursts, and mild abuse of crockery, Robert Benton's adaptation feels more like a fat Greek wedding than an Ancient Greek tragedy. – Full review External link
  2. Negative review
    David Edelstein, Slate One of those films that makes you say, 'That was powerful. Now what the hell was it about?' – Full review External link
  3. Positive review
    Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper ... solid but not great. – Full review External link
  4. Negative review
    Bill Muller, Arizona Republic It is hard to buy what The Human Stain is peddling.
  5. Positive review
    Charles Taylor, Salon.com The Human Stain takes a complex work of literary art and reduces it to tasteful melodrama. – Full review External link
  6. Negative review
    Desson Thomson, Washington Post Works wonderfully as an actor's movie. The trouble is, that's the only way it works.
  7. Negative review
    Stephen Hunter, Washington Post The problem is that neither Kidman nor Hopkins seems to know what movie they are in.

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