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The Human Stain (2003)
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Reviews Counted:144
Fresh:59
Rotten:85
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: Though the acting is fine, the leads are miscast, and the story is less powerful on screen than on the page.
Theatrical Release:Oct 31, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $5,311,526
Synopsis: Director Robert Benton brings Philip Roth's 2000 novel THE HUMAN STAIN to the screen in this lavish production, with expert cinematography from Jean-Yves Escoffier. Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins)... [More]
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Sinese, Ed Harris
Director: Robert Benton
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Reviews for The Human Stain
By the end, you will care about the people here.
10/31/03
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03/16/04
The filmmakers explicate Mr. Roth's themes with admirable clarity and care and observe his characters with delicate fondness, but they cannot hope to approximate the brilliance and rapacity of his voice.
10/30/03
Top CriticThe movie is fully worthy of the book, and will reach many people who might not have enjoyed the delightful experience of gliding through Mr. Roth's trenchant and zestful prose on the human condition.
10/30/03
Top CriticThe most emotionally authentic love affair portrayed on the screen in recent years
10/31/03
Though Hollywood seems intent on adapting every well-received novel, some stories just don't translate well to the big screen.
11/24/03
The acting is phenomenal (especially Harris), and the film will be a nice challenge for those in search of one.
06/20/05
A relentlessly moving film whose emotions are the equal of its ideas.
11/01/03
Driector Benton deftly juggles many of Roth's themes to render a full portrait of a false hero.
10/31/03
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12/02/03
The first hour of their movie is quite fine, at times poignant, but ultimately the filmmakers give us a love triangle that all but erases one of its legs.
10/30/03
Top CriticThe Human Stain takes a complex work of literary art and reduces it to tasteful melodrama.
11/01/03
Even when miscast, [Hopkins and Kidman] are capable of spellbinding performances.
10/30/03
Top CriticThe Human Stain is an interesting film that doesn’t quite work. [It] is probably the best film version possible of what is essentially an unfilmable work.
01/01/04
Young Coleman Silk (Miller) puts in an amazing performance that will most likely be forgotten with the heavyweight actors he is working with.
10/26/03
Benton is a highly intelligent director, and in the lead there is that paragon of acting maturity, Anthony Hopkins.
10/31/03
A valiant attempt to bring a difficult book (Philip Roth's The Human Stain) to the screen that's undermined by the added distraction of Nicole Kidman as a char lady.
02/02/04
An intelligent adaptation of Philip Roth's arguably unfilmable novel.
09/04/03
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