The Human Stain
A disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past that threatens to unravel the layers of deception he has constructed for 50 years.
16 November 1964, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 September 1950, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
12 February 1961
20 March 1956, Popayán, Colombia
30 September 1952, New York City, New York, USA
28 November 1950, Tenafly, New Jersey, USA
7 December 1983, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
September 18, 2013
So finely tooled that it feels like it ought to be bound in Morocco leather and placed on a display case in a department store for a last minute Christmas gift.
September 18, 2007
Casting a stain.
November 01, 2003
It is hard to buy what The Human Stain is peddling.
June 20, 2005
The acting is phenomenal (especially Harris), and the film will be a nice challenge for those in search of one.
October 31, 2003
Works wonderfully as an actor's movie. The trouble is, that's the only way it works.
November 03, 2003
... solid but not great.
October 31, 2003
The problem is that neither Kidman nor Hopkins seems to know what movie they are in.
November 01, 2003
The Human Stain takes a complex work of literary art and reduces it to tasteful melodrama.
December 28, 2010
Flawed adaptation of Roth's novel isn't for kids.
December 17, 2004
One of the most underrated pictures of 2003.
November 03, 2003
One of those films that makes you say, 'That was powerful. Now what the hell was it about?'
August 02, 2007
Both Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins are vastly miscast in Robert Benton's poor adaptation of Philip Roth's poignant novel, one of the few works about contempo academic battlefields.
