The Human Stain

I suppose it's not too bad if you can believe that Hopkins is an albino black man and Nicole Kidman is an ugly janitor.

Anthony Hopkins is my new favourite black actor.

This is an odd movie. A bit surreal to see Hopkins play a black man (and Kidman trailer trash!), combined with Wentworth Miller portraying young Hopkins. Feels a bit like several movies sewn together, which can be interesting at times, and others leaving you wondering what the movie is trying to get across.

Anthony Hopkins cast yet again as a black man in a white mans world. Boring

Though the acting is fine, the leads are miscast, and the story is less powerful on screen than on the page.

What would you do when your fuck buddy turns emotional? I kind of liked Kidman's part. She was so shattered inside and less the type Kidman used to act.

Bonus points for Wentworth Miller.

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Not read a single Philip Roth book but I'm sure this works a lot better as a novel than it does as two hours of film in which You Will Believe Anthony Hopkins Is Actually Black. The reviews aren't kidding on when they talk about being miscast, pretty much everyone in the film would do a lot better if they swapped roles with someone else, and it could also do with being a lot less lethargic in its storytelling. It's all tell, no show. Also, ANTHONY HOPKINS IS SUPPOSED TO BE BLACK.

Some of the casting is profoundly misguided, but for a "prestige picture" (read: conservative, artistically timid movie that fine directors do at the end of their careers to finance their retirement) this is quite worthwhile

Kidman and Hopkins have no chemistry. Muted colors and too incredible storyline are terribly distracting even from Kidman's subtle performance.

I'm not buying it.

"Robert Benton's The Human Stain should be a lesson to us all: it is possible to make a film creakier than Guess Who's Coming To Dinner." - Ed Gonzalez

If you want to cast actors so far away from the characters they're supposed to portray, then at least alter the script to fit them in a little better