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The Human Stain is a novel by Philip Roth, published May 5, 2000. The book is set in Western Massachusetts in the late 1990s. Its narrator is 65-year-old author Nathan Zuckerman, who appears in several earlier Roth novels, including two books that form a loose trilogy with The Human Stain, American Pastoral (1997) and I Married a Communist (1998).
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Language. English. Budget. $30 million. Box office. $24.9 million. The Human Stain is a 2003 American drama film directed by Robert Benton. Its screenplay, by Nicholas Meyer, is based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. The film stars Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris .
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Dec 18, 2003 · A film adaptation of Philip Roth's novel about a professor's secret past and his affair with a young woman. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise, directed by Robert Benton.
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May 10, 2000 · 3.91. 41,329 ratings2,797 reviews. It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town an aging Classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist.
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Oct 31, 2003 · A film adaptation of Roth's novel about a professor who passes for white and falls in love with a janitor. The reviewer praises the film's exploration of identity, race and class, but criticizes the casting and the secret revealed at the end. The secret belongs to the character, not the film.
A drama film based on Philip Roth's novel, starring Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman and Gary Sinise. Critics and audiences give mixed reviews, citing miscasting, poor adaptation and lack of depth.
This is the story of Coleman Silk (Sir Anthony Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with young troubled janitor Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children, and colleague ...
