The Human Stain

6

United States Of America

Drama Romance

106 min

2003

Jude Beny John Finn Jeff Perry Robert Higden Vlasta Vrana Richard Mawe Tom Rack Bill Rowat Richard Russo Stella Arroyave Mimi Kuzyk John Cenatiempo Lydia Zadel Jimmy Chan Russell Yuen Kate Whitney Jessica Schulte Philip Pretten Luc Morissette Lizan Mitchell Nicole Kidman Ed Harris Gary Sinise Wentworth Miller Jacinda Barrett Harry Lennix Clark Gregg Anna Deavere Smith Anthony Hopkins Phyllis Newman Margo Martindale Kerry Washington Ron Canada Mili Avital Danny Blanco Hall Marie Michel Anne Dudek

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.