The Human Stain

2003 · Drama, Romance · 106 min

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.

Anthony Hopkins

Nicole Kidman

Ed Harris

Gary Sinise

Wentworth Miller

Jacinda Barrett

Harry Lennix

Clark Gregg

Anna Deavere Smith

Lizan Mitchell

Kerry Washington

Phyllis Newman