The story is not readily accessible to audiences, and the final product leaves you feeling empty.
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11/04/03
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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
Despite its flaws, this adaptation is excellent. Gary Sinise steals the show.
11/01/03
A better film would have made us tear up, instead of laugh, when Kidman spills her life story to her crow confidant.
11/14/03
It is hard to buy what The Human Stain is peddling.
11/01/03
Top CriticRoth may be a brilliant writer -- he's got the prizes to prove it -- but he doesn't create brilliant characters (especially female ones), and his plots work better on the page than on the screen.
10/30/03
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11/16/03
Casting a stain.
09/18/07
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.
12/23/03
Benton, miraculously, has achieved the worst of both worlds. He has laid bare a great author's creaky plotting only to deliver a melodrama with bookish pretensions.
10/31/03
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11/01/03
Watching Kidman mop floors impressed me with same effect as seeing George W. Bush fly a fighter jet.
02/24/04
Bland and dull rather than disturbing.
10/03/03
Sensitively written and directed but spectacularly miscast.
01/21/04
The overall feeling that “The Human Stain” leaves behind is disappointment.
11/13/03
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09/09/03
Here are complex, troubled, flawed people, brave enough to breathe deeply and take one more risk with their lives.
10/31/03
Top CriticThe Human Stain has those qualities we often want but rarely see in our films: intelligence and ambition, decency and humanity, poetry and pity, fire and ice.
10/30/03
Top CriticThe movie is a disappointment -- not a stain on Benton's career as a serious and literate director, but only half the powerful drama it might have been.
10/30/03
Além das péssimas escalações de Hopkins e Kidman, que simplesmente não convencem em seus papéis, o filme ainda sofre em função do roteiro sem foco de Meyer.
02/11/04
The movie's nature and content brings together a team of actors that's about as good as it gets and the ravishing Nicole Kidman has a few moments of sufficient artistry to give the members of the Academy some pause when they consider this year's nomina
09/29/03
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