The Human Stain (2003)
- Starring:
- Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, (more)
- Director(s):
- Robert Benton
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
- Category:
- Independent Films, Drama
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For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal Attraction co-scribe Nicholas Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, The Human Stain stars Anthony Hopkins as Coleman Silk, a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeper and deeper into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when an affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman) is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming public. Ed Harris, who previously worked with Benton in 1984's Places in the Heart, also stars. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 106 mins
Complete Cast:
- Anthony Hopkins - Coleman Silk
- Ed Harris - Lester Farley
- Wentworth Miller - Coleman Silk as a young man
- Harry J. Lennix - Mr. Silk
- Anna Deavere Smith - Mrs. Silk
- Kerry Washington - Ellie
- Margo Martindale - Psychologist
- Mili Avital - Young Iris
- Kristen Blevins - Young Ernestine
- Mimi Kuzyk - Professor Delphine Roux
- Stella Arroyave - Faculty Committee Member
- Deano Clavet - Boxing Coach
- Danny Stone - Tennis Player
- Philip Pretten - Record Store Manager
- Kate Whitney - Mrs. Primus
- Bill Rowat - Swift
- Nwamiko Madden - Young Man on the Porch
- Edward Lafferty - Rally Protester
- Phillip Collete Gervais - Train Conductor
- Kim Gandol Ferenczi - Rally Protester
- Vito DeFilippo - Mark Silk
- Jude Beny - Sally
- Pierre LeBlanc - Naval Recruiter
- Robert Higden - Jeff Silk
- Charles W. Gray - Minister
- Rick Snyder - Tennis Player
- Vlasta Vrana - Solly Tabak
- Richard Mawe - Doc Chizner
- Peter "Sugarfoot" Cunningham - Boxer
- Nicole Kidman - Faunia Farley
- Gary Sinise - Nathan Zuckerman
- Jacinda Barrett - Steena Paulsson
- Clark Gregg - Nelson Primus
- Lizan Mitchell - Ernestine
- Phyllis Newman - Iris Silk
- Ron Canada - Herb Keble
- Danny Blanco-Hall - Walter
- Anne Dudek - Lisa Silk
- John Finn - Louie Borero
- John Cenatiempo - Boxer
- Jeff Perry - Tennis Player
- Russell Yuen - Chinese Waiter
- Lydia Zadel - Nature Center Girl
- Jessica Shutle - Student
- Frank Proctor - Announcer
- Sylvain Landry - Maitre D
- Steven Grise - Rally Protester
- Andrew Forge - Faculty Committee Member
- Sylvain Dore - St. Nicholas Referee
- Jimmy Chang - Chinese Restaurant Owner
- Neville Edwards - Coleman's Cornerman
- Luc Morisette - Street Photographer
- Richard Russo - Faculty Committee Member
- Brea Asher - Primus' Secretary
- Terry Haig - Police Officer #2
- Tom Rack - Bobcat
- Laurent Imbault - Administrative Officer
- Allison Pratt Davis - Diner on the Train
- Director(s):
- Robert Benton
- Writer(s):
- Nicholas Meyer
- Producer(s):
- Scott Steindorff, Tom Rosenberg, Gary Lucchesi
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Profanity, Sexual Situations, Adult Situations)
- Categories:
- Drama, Independent Films
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- 2003 - The Human Stain - American Film Institute - Best Picture







