The Human Stain (2003)

Synopsis of The Human Stain

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, Rovi

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Theatrical Feature Running Time:

106 mins

Director(s):

Robert Benton

Writer(s):

Nicholas Meyer

Producer(s):

Scott Steindorff, Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg

Theatrical MPAA Rating:

R(Adult Situations, Sexual Situations, Profanity)

Categories:

Independent Films

• 2003 - American Film Institute - Best Picture

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