The Human Stain
The Human Stain
R
6.0
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2003

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106m

The Human Stain

Summary

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.

Director

Robert Benton

Novel

Philip Roth

Screenplay

Nicholas Meyer

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Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$30,000,000.00

Revenue:

$24,900,000.00

Keywords

literature professor
passing for white