The Human Stain Movie Review 2003

Anthony Hopkins is a professor in the middle of a racial controversy who's passing as a white Jew and Nicole Kidman is the sorrowful, down-on-her-luck janitor with whom he becomes involved in Benton's watered-down adaptation of Philip Roth's 2000 novel. The book is an angry expose of America's struggles with issues of race, age, and sexuality, but the film falls short of conveying that anger. Excellent cast does what it can to compensate.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 106 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Not-So-True Identity, May-December Romance, Workin' for a Livin', Domestic Abuse, Flashback, Interracial Affairs, Campus Capers, Widows & Widowers, Writers, Period Piece: 1940s, Only the Lonely, Books to Film: Philip Roth

Screenplay

Nicholas Meyer

Cast

Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller, Harry J. Lennix, Anna Deavere Smith, Jacinda Barrett, Phyllis Newman, Kerry Washington, Margo Martindale, Ron Canada, Mili Avital, Mimi Kuzyk

Cinematography

Jean-Yves Escoffier

Director

Robert Benton

Music

Rachel Portman

Other

Claude La Haye, Dondi Bastone, Christopher Tellefsen, Zoe Sakellaropoulo, Rita Ryack, David Gropman

Producer

Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi, Scott Steindorff, Lakeshore Entertainment, Stone Village, Cinereta-Cineepsilon, Miramax Films