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The Human Stain is a drama film based on Philip Roth's novel, starring Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, and Gary Sinise. It follows a former professor who reveals his secret of passing as a white Jewish man and his affair with a younger woman.
Dec 18, 2003 · With Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise. When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.
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- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Robert Benton
- 2003-12-18
Oct 31, 2003 · A film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel about a professor who passes for white and falls in love with a janitor. Ebert praises the actors and the director for exploring the themes of identity, race and class.
A film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel about a professor who hides his racial secret and has an affair with a younger woman. Critics and audiences disagree on the quality of the casting, the story, and the adaptation of the source material.
- (154)
- Robert Benton
- R
- Anthony Hopkins
The Human Stain is set in 1998 in the United States, during the period of President Bill Clinton's impeachment hearings and scandal over Monica Lewinsky. It is the third of Roth's postwar novels that take on large social themes.
- Philip Roth
- 2000
A professor (Anthony Hopkins) has a secret past as a black man and an affair with a troubled woman (Nicole Kidman). His life unravels when his secret is exposed and he is accused of racism.
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In the late 1990s, writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise) has settled in a lakeside New England cabin following his second divorce and a battle with prostate cancer.
- 2 min
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