The Human Stain (film)

The Human Stain is a 2003 American drama film directed by Robert Benton. The screenplay by Nicholas Meyer is based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Philip Roth. The film stars Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman.

The project is placed on the back burner when Coleman has an affair with Faunia Farley Nicole Kidman, a considerably younger, semiliterate woman who supports herself by working menial jobs, including at the college. Their relationship is threatened by the faculty members who forced Coleman from his job and by Faunias stalker exhusband Lester Ed Harris, a mentally unbalanced Vietnam War veteran who blames her for the deaths of their children in an accident. Flashbacks of Colemans life reveal to the audience his secrethe is an African American who has passed as a white Jewish man for most of his adult life.The film debuted at the Venice Film Festival. It was shown at the Toronto Film Festival, the Bergen International Film Festival, and the Hollywood Film Festival before its theatrical release in the US. ........

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