The Human Stain
Release Date: Oct 31, 2003 - Wide Release
Distributor: Miramax Films
Film Genre: Drama Romance
Country: United States
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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.
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Benton cleaned up at the Academy awards with his 1979 classic drama, Kramer vs. Kramer.