This film tells the story of a disgraced former college dean. One day, this man falls in a love relationship with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark. Things will turn upside down, as the woman has a twisted past that threatens to unravel the layers of deception he has constructed in his life.
So finely tooled that it feels like it ought to be bound in Morocco leather and placed on a display case in a department store for a last minute Christmas gift.
Both Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins are vastly miscast in Robert Benton's poor adaptation of Philip Roth's poignant novel, one of the few works about contempo academic battlefields.
