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The Human Stain (2003)

The Human Stain (2003)

Drama Romance

How far would you go to escape the past?

Release Date: 2003, October 29
Directors: Robert Benton
Countries: Germany, France, United States of America
Production: Cinepsilon, Miramax, Lakeshore Entertainment, Cinerenta, Stone Village Pictures
Cast: Anna Deavere Smith, Jessica Schulte, Clark Gregg, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Lydia Zadel, Kerry Washington, Russell Yuen, Harry Lennix, Jimmy Chan, Pierre Leblanc, Jude Beny

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

literature professor passing for white