The Human Stain
How far would you go to escape the past?
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur.To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life.
- Director
- Robert Benton
- Worldwide
- $25M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
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What It's About
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Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.
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Box Office & Release
The Human Stain returned 0.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $30M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $25M
- Release date
- Oct 29, 2003
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, France
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