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.
Release Date: 31 October 2003Runtime: 106 min
Stars:
- Anna Deavere Smith
- Anthony Hopkins
- Clark Gregg
- Ed Harris
- Gary Sinise
- Harry Lennix
- Jacinda Barrett
- Kerry Washington
- Lizan Mitchell
- Margo Martindale
- Mili Avital
- Nicole Kidman
- Phyllis Newman
- Ron Canada
- Wentworth Miller
Director: Robert Benton
