Movie review
Film stained with emotions
by Rawly Bransom, Sports Editor

   Anger, hate, betrayal, passion and all the other emotions that create the human experience are portrayed in The Human Stain, a movie by director Robert Benton.
   The Human Stain stars Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise in a movie based on a novel by Philip Roth.
   Hopkins plays Coleman Silk, a classics professor with a secret that could have saved his career from charges of bigotry.
   After he resigns his position with the school, his wife dies from the shock of the whole experience.
   Sinise plays Nathan Zucker-man, a blocked writer. Coleman befriends Zuckerman in hopes that Zuckerman would turn his story into a nov-el.    Kidman plays Faunia Farley, a woman who works three jobs and seduces a much older Coleman when he gives her a ride home one night.
   Harris plays Lester Farley, Faunia’s violent ex-husband.
   The Human Stain is a movie that true movie buffs will enjoy. The movie has a few truly dark and tense moments as well as a few light and comical ones.
   The story is at its very heart the tale of an older man, a younger woman and the path they travel to fall in love.
   This path is full of twists and turns one would never expect. It also has a few twists that are almost unbelievable.
   The Human Stain is definitely an Oscar-caliber movie.
   It has what could be one of the most talented as well as strangest casting ever in a movie.
   The Human Stain is rated a very strong R for nudity, language and adult themes. This is not a movie to take the kids to.
   If, however, the adults would like a movie that makes them sit back and think a little, then it is definitely the movie to go watch.