Human Stain, The (2003) - Details

AKA : Human Stain

THE HUMAN STAIN is the story of Coleman Silk (Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Academy Award Nominee Nicole Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise) who stumbles upon Silk's secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. Directed by Academy Award winner Robert Benton