The Human Stain
- Release Date: October 31, 2003
- Genre: Drama
- Director: Robert Benton
- Producer(s): Gary Lucchesi, Tom Rosenberg, Scott Steindorff
- Writer(s): Nicholas Meyer
- Studio: Alliance Films
- Length: 1h 46m
- Official Site: www.miramax.com/the_human_stain/
Synopsis
Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a distinguished professor at a prestigious New England college whose professional life is shattered by allegations of racism and whose personal life is infected with the cancer of a lie he has been living for fifty years.His career and reputation in ruin, Silk begins a dynamic resurrection through two new relationships; one, a friendship with writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), whom he intrigues with his story, the other a scandalous affair with a young woman (Nicole Kidman).