The Human Stain

– Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.30 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 46 Minutes
Release Year:
2003
The Human Stain
The Human Stain (2003)

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.

The Human Stain (2003) - Trailer

Release Date:

29 Oct 2003

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

The Human Stain

The Human Stain
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Plot:

The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.

Awards:

3 wins & 5 nominations.

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Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
42%
Metacritic:
57%

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