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The Human Stain (2003)
6.2
Ratings: 6.2/10 from 17,064 users
Metascore:
57/100
Reviews: 201 user | 118 critic | 39 from Metacritic.com When a disgraced former college professor has a romance with a mysterious younger woman haunted by her dark twisted past, he is forced to confront a shocking secret about his own life that he has kept secret for 50 years. Director:Robert Benton |
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| Anthony Hopkins | ... | ||
| Nicole Kidman | ... | ||
| Ed Harris | ... | ||
| Gary Sinise | ... | ||
| Wentworth Miller | ... | ||
| Jacinda Barrett | ... | ||
| Harry Lennix | ... | ||
| Clark Gregg | ... | ||
| Anna Deavere Smith | ... | ||
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Lizan Mitchell | ... |
Ernestine
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| Kerry Washington | ... |
Ellie
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Phyllis Newman | ... |
Iris Silk
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| Margo Martindale | ... |
Psychologist
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| Ron Canada | ... | ||
| Mili Avital | ... |
Young Iris
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The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (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 a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, 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 his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled. Written by lakeshoreentertainment.com
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(France) See more »Also Known As:
Der menschliche Makel See more »Box Office
Budget:
$30,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$1,034,195 (USA) (2 November 2003) (160 Screens)Gross:
$24,863,804 (Worldwide)Company Credits
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(1828)
Performed by Gunter Weiss & The Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet
Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises See more »
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The racist white man on the train who berates the porter is played by Allison Davis, a Chicago attorney who is black. See more »Goofs
Continuity: When Coleman and Faunia are talking in the kitchen, the cigarettes and the lighter on the counter (next to Kidman) keep changing position from scene to scene. See more »Quotes
Nathan Zuckerman: [voiceover] 1998 was the summer of sanctimony. After the fall of Communism and before the horrors of terrorism, there was a brief interlude when the nation was preoccupied by cock sucking.See more »
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"Schubert String Quintet in C Major"(1828)
Performed by Gunter Weiss & The Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet
Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg
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