Human Stain Summary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Benton
Genres: Drama
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For his first film since 1998's Twilight, acclaimed director Robert_Benton helmed this tense drama written by Fatal_Attraction co-scribe Nicholas_Meyer and based on the novel of the same name by Philip_Roth. Set in the late '90s at the height of the Clinton sex-scandal, The Human Stain stars Anthony_Hopkins as Coleman Silk, 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 (Gary_Sinise), a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeper and deeper into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when an affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley (Nicole_Kidman) 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 public. Ed_Harris, who previously worked with Benton in 1984's Places in the Heart, also stars. Matthew Tobey, Rovi
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