The human stain [videorecording] / 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.
Based on the novel by Philip Roth. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003. Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller, Jacinda Barrett, Harry Lennix, Clark Gregg, Anna Deavere Smith, Lizan Mitchell, Kerry Washington, Phyllis Newman, Margo Martindale, Ron Canada, Mili Avital.
Contents:
Opening titles/On the road -- "Spooks" -- "Something's wrong" -- Respecting the precision of words -- Fishing for a girl -- "Action is the enemy of thought" -- "What are you thinking?" -- Just end it? -- Lester's visit -- Rich with contempt -- "What about me?" -- LIfe's loves -- "Dance for me" -- Peripeteia -- Big deals -- "Crow that doesn't know how to be a crow" -- "Freak accident" -- Coleman's lie -- "Human stain" -- End credits.
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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