This mediocre movie is made worse by the miscasting of Nicole Kidman. She cannot pull of the wasted life girl and she winds up shrill. This is probably her worst performance yet. Also, I am more than happy to see Jacinda Barrett in a full-frontal nude strip scene, but the scene is as uncomfortably gratuitous as the Reese Witherspoon scene in Benton's last film Twilight. It just feels creepy.
Review of The Human Stain
