Anthony Hopkins
Coleman Silk
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The Human Stain is a drama film based on Philip Roth's novel, starring Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, and Gary Sinise. It follows a former professor who reveals his secret of passing as a white Jewish man and his affair with a younger woman.
With Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise. When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.
- (32K)
- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Robert Benton
- 2003-12-18
Oct 31, 2003 · What makes “The Human Stain” ambitious and fascinating is how it considers both of these journeys. Once he decides to pass, Coleman Silk finds it relatively easy to exist as a white Navy officer, college student and professor; he must have had problems, but we don’t see them.
Based on Philip Roth's novel, The Human Stain tells the story of Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a college professor living in a world of political correctness where racism runs rampant,...
- (154)
- Robert Benton
- R
- Anthony Hopkins
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.
- (185)
- Robert Benton
- R
- 17
A national bestseller, The Human Stain was adapted in 2003 as a film by the same name directed by Robert Benton. Synopsis. Coleman Silk is a former professor and dean of the faculty at Athena College, a fictional institution in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where he still lives.
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When a disgraced former college dean has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark, twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking fact about his own life that he has kept secret for fifty years.
