The Human Stain 2003

How far would you go to escape the past?

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R
Drama Romance

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.

Release Date 2003-10-29
Runtime 1h 46m
Directors Jean-Yves Escoffier, Robert Benton
Producers Andre Lamal, Gary Lucchesi, Eberhard Kayser, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Scott Steindorff, Rick Schwartz, Steve Hutensky, Michael Ohoven, Tom Rosenberg, Ronald M. Bozman
Writers Nicholas Meyer, Philip Roth