Genres
Production Companies
Miramax
Lakeshore Entertainment
Cinerenta
Stone Village Pictures
The Human Stain
How far would you go to escape the past?
Overview
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.
Key Crew
Director: Robert Benton
Producer: Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Scott Steindorff
Screenplay: Nicholas Meyer
Director of Photography: Jean-Yves Escoffier
Top Cast
Anthony Hopkins
Coleman Silk
Nicole Kidman
Faunia Farley
Ed Harris
Lester Farley
Gary Sinise
Nathan Zuckerman
Wentworth Miller
Young Coleman Silk
Jacinda Barrett
Steena Paulsson
Harry Lennix
Mr. Silk
Clark Gregg
Nelson Primus
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