Human Stain, The
Director: Robert Benton
IMDB Rating: 6.30 out of 10 (7706 votes)
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.
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Taglines: 1: How far would you go to escape the past?
Actors: Hopkins Anthony (Coleman Silk), Kidman Nicole (Faunia Farley), Harris Ed (Lester Farley), Sinise Gary (Nathan Zuckerman), Miller Wentworth (Young Coleman Silk), Barrett Jacinda (Steena Paulsson), Lennix Harry J. (Mr. Silk), Gregg Clark (Nelson Primus), Smith Anna Deavere (Mrs. Silk), Mitchell Lizan (Ernestine), Washington Kerry (Ellie), Newman Phyllis (Iris Silk), Martindale Margo (Psychologist), Canada Ron (Herb Kebble), Avital Mili (Young Iris),

































