The Human Stain
(2003)
★ 6 IMDb · 518 votes
Year: 2003
Runtime: 106 мин
Country: France, Germany
Director: Роберт Бентон
Cast: Энтони Хопкинс, Николь Кидман, Эд Харрис, Гэри Синиз, Уэнтуорт Миллер, Jacinda Barrett, Гарри Ленникс, Кларк Грегг, Anna Deavere Smith, Lizan Mitchell
Plot
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.
This is the story of Coleman Silk (Sir 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 young troubled janitor Faunia Farley (Nicole Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children, and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman (Gary Sinise), fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman 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 of his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life became unravelled.