MOVIE · 2003

The Human Stain

DramaRomanceThriller106 min

Anthony Hopkins is Coleman Silk, an admired professor whose career collapses after an offhand remark is taken as a racial slur. Determined to clear his name, he begins telling his story to friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), while starting an affair with Nicole Kidman’s Faunia Farley, a younger woman burdened by a tormented past. As the scandal spreads beyond the college, Zuckerman uncovers the hidden history Coleman has kept buried for most of his life, and the version of himself he has presented to the world begins to crack.