Drama about fear and prejudice, about false morality and double standards, about racism and political correctness that goes more and more into extremes until it becomes equally evil as evil it fights against. I always loved Hopkins and with every new movie I love him more. I think there's no role he can not nail and make story deeper and stronger. And if I continue to watch movies with Nicole Kidman I risk to fall in love. Few days ago, when I saw Far and Away, my antipathy towards her weakened and after The Human Stain it completely disappeared. Now I just need to see Moulen Rouge and I'll start sticking her posters around the room like teenager.8,5/10

It's 1998. Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a Jewish classics professor at Athena College. He comments that two students are spooks for missing class. It turns out that they're black and complains are filed about its racist connotation. Coleman is incensed and his wife dies from the stress. He hires fiction writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise) to write about his life. He recalls his early life (Wentworth Miller) and his love Steena Paulsson (Jacinda Barrett). He starts having a fling with a much younger Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman). Her ex-husband Lester Farley (Ed Harris) is unstable and stalking her. Coleman's lawyer Nelson Primus (Clark Gregg) tries to talk him out of his relationship.This struggles to gather any speed. The Hopkins Kidman romance holds the potential of something compelling. Based on the novel, this movie is all about the secret. I'm willing to swallow Hopkins' casting. The flashback to Wentworth Miller is problematic. It stalls the movie every time. It also reveals the secret right away which lessens any shock value. The flashbacks should be pushed further back in the film so that his rejections in both time periods happen at the same time. There is a passionate affair at the center but all around it, the movie keeps working to drain away the tension.

The Human Stain is a drama film that stars Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman together with Gary Sinise and Ed Harris.It was directed by Robert Benton. The screenplay by Nicholas Meyer is based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late 1990s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, Coleman Silk, a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeper and deeper into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when an affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming public.While the film does overreach at times, and might not be as powerful as the material deserves, The Human Stain is far from a failure.Though it fails to reach its potential to become an excellent film,it remains a challenging, thought-provoking film, buoyed with finely crafted performances from both Hopkin and Kidman for at the end of the movie,you do care for the people here.

This film tells us about the confrontation with the past of two different characters. I really like this part because Faunia (Nicole Kidman) has a soul living with a bundle of very tragic episodes needing to be shared about her life. It's not only about Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins)'s secret here. Coleman indeed realizes has 'two bloods' in a time when realizing that involved intolerance and lack of respect; so he stays away of it even this decision involves his own family. On the other hand, Faunia realizes her new family environment is negative for her and she decides to stay away from this but she gets involved in an abusive relationship later on, so again she's being chased from what she's escaping from. Coleman, many years later, sees himself being accused of what he didn't confront many years earlier, probably just a coincidence, probably just something else. Thus, those two characters met each other and I think that's the most positive way had to go for them. They had stories to tell and eventually, you need someone to share your stuff no matter how tragic is your story... perhaps you find someone that not only can listen to you but also, give you love and... as a plus, he's got a secret for you.