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The Human Stain

Cast

Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise View All

Crew

Nicholas Meyer (Screenplay), Robert Benton (Director) View All

Release: Oct. 29th, 2003

Runtime: 1 hour, 46 minutes

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

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6 The Human Stain

Got to see an advanced screening of The Human Stain earlier this week, with the director in attendance even! The Human Stain is a good flick, with a few performances that are surely Oscar-nominat...

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Holden Pike
Hopkins is fantastic, in one of his controlled, subtle performances full of nuance and depth rather than the over-the-top camp and menace assaciated with his Lecter-type roles..

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Gideon58
Not to mention the fact, that the way the relationship between Hopkins and Kidman is established, Kidman's character is way more damaged than Hopkins and this is the character whose backstory would have been a lot more compelling than Coleman's but the closest we get to her backstory is meeting her ....