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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Disney
EAN: 0786936238570
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1SpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitledFrenchDubbedUnknown
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: DISD34822D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 20, 2004
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Product Description:
After an off-hand remark during a lecture coleman a college professor finds his career in ruin & his character questioned. In his darkest hours he begins an affair with faunia a pretty but troubled young woman. Although the relationship awakens his soul it also begins to unravel a dark secret from his past. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/03/2005 Starring: Nicole Kidman Ed Harris Run time: 106 minutes Rating: R
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Given the formidable challenge of adapting Philip Roth's acclaimed novel to the screen, it's a wonder that The Human Stain retains so much of what makes Roth's novel a masterpiece. As adapted by Nicholas Meyer, Robert Benton's film is inevitably a different animal altogether, and it's wide open to charges of miscasting and thematic diffusion. But at its core, this delicate drama succeeds in exposing the sins that stain all of humanity, forcing men like former welterweight boxer and esteemed professor Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) to forsake family and career to conceal his African American heritage. Light-skinned and passing as a Jewish professor of classics in a tony East Coast college, 71-year-old Silk sinks into scandal when an innocent remark is misinterpreted as a racist slur, and this--along with his affair with an illiterate 34-year-old janitor (Nicole Kidman), and friendship with a reclusive novelist (Gary Sinise)--forms the crux of Benton's multilayered inquiry into the oppressive aftershocks of guilt, shame, and mourning, and the effects of judgment (internal and external) on our ability to connect. Roth's novel was one thing, Benton's film is another. Despite differing degrees of success, both are worthy of praise. --Jeff Shannon
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Rating:  -
Everyone who has seen the film LAWRENCE OF ARABIA remembers how it opens with the death of T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole): he drives his motorcycle off a gravel road to avoid hitting some pedestrians. Similarly, THE HUMAN STAIN begins with the deaths of Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) and his lover, Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman): Silk drives his car off an icy road to avoid hitting an approaching pickup truck that deliberately swerved into their lane. About 98% of the subsequent parts of both films ... Read More
Rating:  -
Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a highly respected college dean and professor. After one innocent remark is misinterpreted as a racist comment, he is forced to quit his job in disgrace. Coleman begins a strange affair with an aimless woman (Nicole Kidman) half his age, who has had a tragic past and isn't ready to return his love.
For me, this strange little movie was doomed from the start, when the big finish is shown right away. The rest of the story is shown in choppy, anti-climactic ... Read More
Rating: -
A man has achieved great success academically, and then, while enjoying the fruits of such as a dean in a prestigious college, he makes a casual remark - something seemingly innocent - which is then perceived by two students as a racial slur.
Thus begins the unraveling of the man's career. In the stress of the aftermath, Professor Coleman Silk's wife Iris is felled by a heart attack and dies. And then, Silk (portrayed brilliantly by Anthony Hopkins) begins an unusual friendship with a reclusive ... Read More
Rating:  -
Very thought provoking.
It is about a man leaving his family (and color) to start a new life. For some reason he only falls for white women. Supposedly, he is so light that no one else can tell he is black. He only sneaks around to see his family.It is a strange movie but still thought provoking and deep.
Rating:  -
I have not read the book, but I will assume for now that it is much more balanced than the film. Overall, it was interesting but not as good as it probably could have been. Though I really enjoyed the flashbacks and think that Wentworth Miller is a great actor, the scenes didn't seem to have any connection to the scenes set in 1998. They were randomly placed, for the most part, so I felt like I was watching two different movies. Though I love Anthony Hopkins, I do agree that he should not have been cast as Coleman. ... Read More
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