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The Human Stain

How far would you go to escape the past?

  • Movie
  • 2003
  • R
  • 1h 46m

Directed by Robert Benton

6.0

TMDB audience rating
6.0 out of 10 from 526 votes

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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.

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Cast and crew

  • Anthony Hopkins

    Anthony HopkinsColeman Silk

  • Nicole Kidman

    Nicole KidmanFaunia Farley

  • Ed Harris

    Ed HarrisLester Farley

  • Gary Sinise

    Gary SiniseNathan Zuckerman

  • Wentworth Miller

    Wentworth MillerYoung Coleman Silk

  • Jacinda Barrett

    Jacinda BarrettSteena Paulsson

  • Harry Lennix

    Harry LennixMr. Silk

  • Clark Gregg

    Clark GreggNelson Primus

  • Anna Deavere Smith

    Anna Deavere SmithMrs. Silk

  • Lizan Mitchell

    Lizan MitchellErnestine

  • Kerry Washington

    Kerry WashingtonEllie

  • Phyllis Newman

    Phyllis NewmanIris Silk

  • Margo Martindale

    Margo MartindalePsychologist

  • Ron Canada

    Ron CanadaHerb Keble

  • Mili Avital

    Mili AvitalYoung Iris

  • Danny Blanco Hall

    Danny Blanco HallWalter

  • Marie Michel

    Marie MichelYoung Ernestine

  • Anne Dudek

    Anne DudekLisa Silk

Director
Robert Benton
Writer
Nicholas Meyer and Philip Roth
Music
Rachel Portman
Cinematography
Jean-Yves Escoffier