Starring Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinese, Wentworth Miller
Hopkins usually finds himself being really angry in his films. Unless he's the bad guy in which he installs fear by speaking quietly.
This is the former.
Hopkins Coleman Silk, a disgraced college Dean who after his wife dies, starts an affair with a younger woman and talks to a writer about it. This is then interrupted by various flashbacks to his past, where he grew up as a half cast child. Hiding his 'secret' to gain a college place, Silk in his old age tries to put it in perspective.
The whole film feels as if the actors have all gathered together to further their CVs. It's by no means a bad film, but I found the monologues a little pretentious. Not quite convinced by Nicole Kidman's character either.
3/5
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