The human stain [videorecording (DVD)] / Miramax Films and Lakeshore Entertainment present a Lakeshore Entertainment and Stone Village production in association with Cinerenta-Cineepsilon ; producers, Gary Lucchesi, Scott Steindorff, Tom Rosenberg ; screenplay by Nicholas Meyer ; directed by Robert Benton.
Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller, Jacinda Barrett, Harry Lennix, Clark Gregg. Originally released as a motion picture in 2003. Based on the novel by Philip Roth. Special features: behind-the-scenes featurette; extended 'Crow' scene; tribute to cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier.
Summary:
Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made public.
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