The Human Stain

The Human Stain

1h 46m 2003 Drama, Romance France, Germany, United States of America
Budget: $30,000,000 Revenue: $24,900,000

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.

Director

Robert Benton

Writer

Nicholas Meyer