| Release Date: | Oct 2003 |
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| Genres: | Thriller / Romance / Drama |
| Awards: | 3 wins & 4 nominations |
| Runtime: | 106 min |
| 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) Anna Deavere Smith (Mrs. Silk) Lizan Mitchell (Ernestine) Kerry Washington (Ellie) Phyllis Newman (Iris Silk) Margo Martindale (Psychologist) Ron Canada (Herb Keble) Mili Avital (Young Iris) |
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.
