The Human Stain
How far would you go to escape the past?
2003 1 hour 46 minutes
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.
29th October 2003
22 years ago
1 hour 46 minutes
Finishes at 6:31am
$30,000,000 ($53,940,000 today)
Revenue $24,900,000
3 wins & 5 nominations total
6.2/10
41%
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