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The Human Stain[Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle AC3] - DVD

SKU: 6514569 | Release Date: 7/20/2004
Rating: R for Sexual Situations, Adult Situations, Profanity

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Rating
R for Sexual Situations, Adult Situations, Profanity
Format
DVD
Theatrical Release
2003
Length
106 minutes
Screen Formats
Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre
General Dramas
Studio
Walt Disney Video
Aspect Ratio
1.85:1

Synopsis

For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal Attraction co-scribe Nicholas Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, The Human Stain stars Anthony Hopkins as 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 (Gary Sinise), 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 (Nicole Kidman) 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. Ed Harris, who previously worked with Benton in 1984's Places in the Heart, also stars. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

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Languages/Sound
Eng/Fre
Screen Formats
Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Subtitle Languages
Eng/Fre/Spa
Additional Features
Behind-the-scenes special "A Tribute to Jean Yves Escoffier" (cinematographer)
Chapters
Side #1 --
1. Opening Titles/On the Road [3:35]
2. "Spooks" [5:01]
3. "Something Wrong" [2:07]
4. Respecting the Precision of Words [4:53]
5. Fishing for a Girl [10:11]
6. "Action is the Enemy of Thought" [6:16]
7. "What are You Thinking?" [7:10]
8. Just End It? [2:55]
9. Lester's Visit [5:58]
10. Rich With Contempt [6:22]
11. "What About Me?" [4:07]
12. A Life's Loves [5:21]
13. "Dance for Me" [4:14]
14. Peripeteia [4:45]
15. Big Deals [1:41]
16. "A Crow That Doesn't Know How to be a Crow" [2:11]
17. "A Freak Accident" [5:13]
18. Coleman's Lie [4:36]
19. "The Human Stain" [8:50]
20. End Credits [4:50]

Cast

  • Mimi Kuzyk - Professor Delphine Roux
  • Vlasta Vrana - Solly Tabak
  • Clark Gregg - Nelson Primus
  • Mili Avital - Young Iris
  • Russell Yuen - Chinese Waiter
  • John Cenatiempo - Boxer
  • Ron Canada - Herb Keble
  • Terry Haig - Police Officer #2
  • Kerry Washington - Ellie
  • Kerry Washington
  • Anthony Hopkins - Coleman Silk
  • Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Coleman Silk
  • Ed Harris - Lester Farley
  • Nwamiko Madden - Young Man on the Porch
  • Gary Sinise - Nathan Zuckerman
  • Richard Russo - Faculty Committee Member
  • Nicole Kidman - Faunia Farley
  • John Finn - Louie Borero
  • Richard Mawe - Doc Chizner
  • Margo Martindale - Psychologist
  • Jeff Perry - Tennis Player
  • Tom Rack - Bobcat
  • Anna Deavere Smith - Mrs. Silk
  • Anna Deavere Smith
  • Danny Stone - Tennis Player
  • Deano Clavet - Boxing Coach
  • Allison Pratt Davis - Diner on the Train
  • Laurent Imbault - Administrative Officer
  • Peter "Sugarfoot" Cunningham - Boxer
  • Phyllis Newman
  • Phyllis Newman - Iris Silk
  • Philip Pretten - Record Store Manager
  • Harry J. Lennix - Mr. Silk
  • Harry J. Lennix
  • Jacinda Barrett - Steena Paulsson
  • Jacinda Barrett
  • Anne Dudek - Lisa Silk
  • Wentworth Miller - Coleman Silk as a young man
  • Wentworth Miller
  • Steve Arroyave - Faculty Committee Member
  • Neville Edwards - Coleman's Cornerman
  • Pierre LeBlanc - Naval Recruiter
  • Rick Snyder - Tennis Player
  • Lizan Mitchell - Ernestine
  • Brea Asher - Primus' Secretary
  • Charles W. Gray - Minister
  • Robert Higden - Jeff Silk
  • Luc Morisette - Street Photographer
  • Danny Blanco-Hall - Walter
  • Kristen Blevins - Young Ernestine
  • Jude Beny - Sally
  • Jimmy Chang - Chinese Restaurant Owner
  • Vito DeFilippo - Mark Silk
  • Sylvain Dore - St. Nicholas Referee
  • Kim Gandol Ferenczi - Rally Protester
  • Andrew Forge - Faculty Committee Member
  • Phillip Collete Gervais - Train Conductor
  • Steven Grise - Rally Protester
  • Edward Lafferty - Rally Protester
  • Sylvain Landry - Maitre D
  • Frank Proctor - Announcer
  • Bill Rowat - Swift
  • Jessica Shutle - Student
  • Kate Whitney - Mrs. Primus
  • Lydia Zadel - Nature Center Girl
  • Stella Arroyave - Faculty Committee Member
  • Bruno Mattei - Naval Recruiter

Crew

  • Casting: Avy Kaufman
  • Composer (Music Score): Rachel Portman
  • Makeup: Joe Rossi
  • Executive Producer: Michael Ohoven
  • Casting: Robin D. Cook
  • Executive Producer: Eberhard Kayser
  • Stunts Coordinator: Jean Frenette
  • Hair Styles: Paul LeBlanc
  • Sound/Sound Designer: Claude La Haye
  • Sound Mixer: Claude La Haye
  • Casting: Deborah Aquila
  • Second Assistant Director: Joan Bostwick
  • Executive Producer: Bob Weinstein
  • Costume Designer: Kendall Errair
  • Visual Effects: Payam Shohadai
  • Special Effects Supervisor: Payam Shohadai
  • ADR Mixer: Bob Baron
  • Casting: Tricia Wood
  • Still Photographer: Takashi Seida
  • Re-Recording Mixer: Lee Dichter
  • Music Editor: Suzana Peric
  • Stunts: Stéphane Lefebvre
  • Director: Robert Benton
  • Set Dresser: Paul Richards
  • Assistant Location Manager: Lynn Beaudin
  • Stunts: Annie Carignan
  • Makeup: Gillian Chandler
  • Location Manager: Mark Fitzgerald
  • Grip: Bill Flanagan
  • Set Designer: Kyra Friedman
  • Scenic Artist: Nicolas Godbout
  • Grip: Eric Komar
  • Visual Effects: Ian Noe
  • Boom Operator: Francis Péloquin
  • Scenic Artist: Paul-François Sampson
  • Sound/Sound Designer: Warren Shaw
  • Supervising Sound Editor: Warren Shaw
  • Assistant Properties: Robert Pierre Cote
  • Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Barry
  • Hair Styles: Milton Buras ,Andre Duval
  • ADR Editor: Tony Martinez
  • Makeup: Donald J. Mowat
  • Makeup Supervisor: Donald J. Mowat
  • Scenic Artist: Tony Trotta
  • Foley Artist: Marko Costanza
  • Casting Associate: Jennifer Smith
  • ADR Mixer: Charlene Richards
  • Producer: Tom Rosenberg
  • Executive Producer: Ron Bozman
  • First Assistant Director: Ron Bozman
  • ADR Mixer: David Boulton
  • Art Director: Peter Rogness
  • Casting: Lucie Robitaille
  • Scenic Artist: Robert Topol
  • Sound Mixer: Danny Michael
  • Extra Casting: Julie Breton
  • ADR Mixer: Bobby Johanson
  • Book Author: Philip Roth
  • Executive Producer: Andre Lamal
  • Producer: Gary Lucchesi
  • Co-producer: Mario Ohoven
  • Musical Direction/Supervision: Dondi Bastone
  • Screenwriter: Nicholas Meyer
  • Dialogue Editor: Dan Korintus
  • Hair Styles: Benjamin Robin
  • Makeup: Benjamin Robin
  • Set Designer: Raynald Langelier
  • Assistant Art Director: Jean Morin
  • Post Production Supervisor: James McQuaide
  • Special Effects: James McQuaide
  • Hair Styles: Kerry Warn
  • Makeup: Robert McCann
  • Casting Assistant: Jessica Daniels
  • Leadman: Jim Kent
  • Set Designer: Lucille Parenteau
  • Cable Person: Catherine Bellazzi
  • Set Medic/First Aid: Deborah Clapp
  • Generator Operator: Jean Decarie
  • Cable Person: Kelly Doran
  • Runner: Genevieve Hamel
  • Generator Operator: Brendan Keffe
  • Runner: Martin Lebrun
  • Production Secretary: Marie-France Long
  • Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Brian Pitts
  • Set Medic/First Aid: Mario Trépanier
  • Voice Casting: Bruce Winant ,Loopers Unlimited
  • Negative Cutter: Mary Nelson-Fraser & Associates
  • Assistant Location Manager: Luke Ramsey
  • Generator Operator: Mark Casey
  • Foley Recordist: George A. Lara
  • Costume Designer: Rita Ryack
  • Fights Choreographer: Ron Stein
  • Executive Producer: Rick Schwartz
  • Producer: Scott Steindorff
  • Buyer: Simone Leclerc
  • Executive Producer: Harvey Weinstein
  • Assistant Music Editor: Nancy Allen
  • Art Department Coordinator: Marie-Claude L'Heureux
  • Conductor: David Snell
  • Production Assistant: Marco Grégoire
  • Stunts: Benoit Gautier ,Minor Mustain ,David Rigby ,Jason Cavalier
  • Casting Associate: Maria Tortu
  • Consultant/advisor: R.J. Broadhurst
  • Editor: Christopher Tellefsen
  • Production Designer: David Gropman
  • Assistant Location Manager: Michel Léonard
  • Location Manager: Benoit Mathieu
  • Set Dresser: Ryan Webb
  • Set Designer: Lucie Tremblay
  • ADR Mixer: Michael Miller
  • Lighting: Patrick Ruth
  • Camera Operator: Jim McConkey
  • Stunts Coordinator: Jim McConkey
  • Set Production Assistant: Douglas Webster
  • Choreography: Pat Birch
  • Cinematographer: Jean-Yves Escoffier
  • Costume/Wardrobe: Jacinthe Demers
  • Unit Production Manager: Cecilia Kate Roque
  • Art Director: Zoe Sakellaropoulo
  • Script Supervisor: France Lachapelle
  • Unit Publicist: Rob Harris
  • Lighting: Philip R. Reilly
  • Boom Operator: Andy Schmetterling
  • Visual Effects: Rev. Robin Meyers
  • Lighting: Robert Cuddy
  • Costume Designer: Carolyn Schnitzer
  • Post Production Accountant: Winnie Cheng
  • Assistant Production Coordinator: Sandra Joubeaud
  • Production Manager: Tal Meirson
  • Still Photographer: Abbot Genser
  • Production Coordinator: Sofie Handfield
  • Sound/Sound Designer: Harry Higgins
  • Recording: Harry Higgins
  • Properties Master: Martin Handfield
  • Makeup: Tricia Heine
  • Production Assistant: Yannick Henrico
  • Assistant Sound Editor: Christopher Hills-Wright
  • Costume Designer: Heather Holbrook
  • Visual Effects: Justin Johnson
  • Production Assistant: Frédéric Jougla
  • Lighting: Thomas Keenan
  • Grip: Robert Lacroix
  • Properties Master: Martin Lasowitz
  • Scenic Artist: Narmand Laveaux
  • Set Production Assistant: Elizabeth Lawrence
  • Set Designer: Claude Leclair
  • Musical Performer: John Lenehan
  • Set Production Assistant: Kristin Kubiak McConkey
  • Costume Designer: Aimee McCue
  • Lighting: Jack McPhee
  • Special Effects: Moon Against Man
  • Assistant Production Coordinator: Wendy Mooradian
  • Set Production Assistant: Chuck Moya
  • Production Assistant: Jean-Denis Neveu
  • ADR Mixer: Stanley Oda
  • Set Production Assistant: Emily Palmer
  • Production Assistant: Éric Peissard
  • Visual Effects: Phil Pham
  • Second Assistant Camera: Greg Principato
  • Lighting: Charles Proulx
  • Production Assistant: Annie Rhodes
  • Executive Producer: Dana Ross
  • Lighting: William Ted Ross
  • Second Assistant Camera: Alain Rousseau
  • Set Dresser: Jim Schneider
  • Visual Effects: Thana Siripopungul
  • ADR Mixer: Robert Spano
  • Grip: Michel St-Martin
  • Visual Effects: Matt Steele
  • Foley Editor: William Sweeny
  • Lighting: Stephane Tanguay
  • Grip: Darrell Temple
  • Set Production Assistant: Danny Turgeon
  • Lighting: Marco Venditto
  • Assistant Sound Editor: Dan Ward
  • Casting Associate: Mauren Whaler
  • Casting Assistant: Megan Wright
  • Assistant Properties: Mike Zadrosny
  • Lighting: Jean-Francois Abran
  • Sound/Sound Designer: Bill Allen
  • Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Bernard April
  • Unit Production Manager: Karl Archambault
  • Scenic Artist: Mario Barriere
  • Set Dresser: Sophie Beasse
  • Production Assistant: André Beaudry
  • Grip: Woody Bell
  • Hair Styles: Wyatt Belton
  • Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Carlos Bermudez
  • Chief Lighting Technician: Sylvain Berneir
  • Production Assistant: Bruno Bienvenue
  • First Assistant Editor: Kent Blocher
  • Costume/Wardrobe: Josee Boisvert
  • Visual Effects: Artaya Boonsoong
  • Set Dresser: Richard Brunet
  • Scenic Artist: Walter Byrns
  • Lighting: Dave Cambria
  • Set Dresser: John Capron
  • Animal Trainer/Wrangler: Jean Cardinal
  • Production Assistant: Daniel Charbonneau
  • Assistant Properties: Marie Cailhier Chartrand ,Danica Chipman
  • Martial Arts Instructor/Coordinator: Terry Claybon
  • Consultant/advisor: Marie-Claude Couture
  • Production Assistant: Martin Couture ,Alex Curzi
  • Coordinator: Ross Danielson
  • Grip: Jean-Yves Denis
  • Scenic Artist: Jean Desroches
  • Hair Styles: Jerry Dicarlo
  • Assistant Chief Lighting Technician: Tom Dolan
  • Set Production Assistant: Stéphane Dovon
  • Executive Producer: Evan Edelist
  • Production Coordinator: Meryl Emmerton
  • Set Dresser: Jennifer Engel
  • Extra Casting: Kevin Fennessy
  • Scenic Artist: Luc Gagnier ,Sebastien Gervais
  • Grip: Remi Giroux
  • Executive Producer: Steve Hutensky
  • Visual Effects: Rob Meyers
  • Painter: Stephen Craig ,Jean Larose ,Isabelle Rousseau
  • Carpenter: Construction BFG ,Atelier Nina Gauvin
  • Assistant Unit Manager: Kristian Girard ,Annie Tremblay
  • Painter: Stephen R. Craig
  • Choreography: Patricia Birch
  • Chief Lighting Technician: Jaymie Fortune
  • Lighting: Daniel Hutchison
  • Set Designer: Kyra Friedman-Curcio

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The Human Stain: AMG Review
Derek Armstrong , AMG

Few titles convey unspecific malaise as well as The Human Stain, and few films address that malaise with such enviable starkness. Director Robert Benton brings to bear a career's worth of exploring the complexity of human relationships, and the top-to-bottom stellar cast backs him up nicely in a film that flew under the radar, but shouldn't have. Anthony Hopkins may not be far afield from his typical stately intellectual, but Nicole Kidman gives a harrowing demonstration of her range in the role of a dead-end divorcée, and Ed Harris exudes frightening menace as a war veteran whose instabilities might manifest themselves in any way, at any time. Not only does each of the main characters -- who include Gary Sinise as a withdrawn cancer survivor -- get enough screen time to struggle with their very different and very personal injuries, but a healthy stretch of Nicholas Meyer's adroit screenplay delves into the distant past, seamlessly. It's in this portion that the film develops a new, richer layer of meaning that couldn't be divined from either the trailers or the casting of the actors. Yet the film's present tense is also dense with currency and insight, smartly set during the Monika Lewinsky scandal as a means of criticizing our guilt-by-accusation society. That Hopkins' professor could be ruined over his correct usage of a term that's been bastardized into a racial slur echoes several prominent real-world instances of political correctness gone haywire. Although perhaps a little thematically obvious, setting the film in perpetually wintry conditions reminds a viewer of other powerful films involving emotional scarring, such as Affliction or The Ice Storm. The Human Stain is well worthy of joining their ranks. ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide

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