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Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Robert Benton
Production: Miramax Films
  3 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
42%
R
Year:
2003
106 min
Website
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No. You know what we're going to do?

We're going to do a two-pronged attack.

We're going to attack

We're going to get lawyers,

because I know some...

Okay. I know. Which is why

- Coly?

- What?

- Something's wrong.

- I know there is. What do you mean?

- Coly

- What's the matter?

- Coly

- Hey, come on, sit down.

What's the matter?

Come on.

- Come on.

- I'm sorry.

It's all right.

I'm sorry

Iris Silk died several hours later

in her husband's arms.

Six months after that,

Coleman came into my life.

I had been living alone in a small cabin

by a lake not far from Athena.

Including questions

about my private life...

questions no American citizen

would ever want to answer.

Still, I must take

complete responsibility

for all my actions

both public and private.

And that is why I am

speaking to you tonight.

- As you know, in a deposition in January

- Hello?

I was asked questions

about my relationship

- Are you Mr. Zuckerman?

- Yeah.

- Are you Nathan Zuckerman?

- Yeah.

You're the Zuckerman

that's the writer, correct?

- Yeah, but

- We've got to talk. May I come in?

Thanks. Your last book won

some sort of prize, right?

- It was short-listed for the

- That was 5 years ago. What happened?

You're blocked, right?

You're blocked!

You're worried you don't

have another story in you.

Well, I can fix that.

I'm the answer to your prayers.

- You know who I am?

- Dean Silk?

Dean Coleman Silk.

That's right.

The late, retired and now resigned

and unlamented Dean Silk,

following the murder

you clock that?

Following the murder of my wife.

How's that grab you, Zuckerman?

That good enough to

get your juices flowing?

I'm not sure I understand.

Those sons of b*tches

killed my wife, Nathan.

They killed my wife as if they'd taken

a gun and fired it into her heart.

Yeah. Who would've thought

Iris couldn't take it

as strong as she was,

brave as she was? But, uh

yeah, their kind of stupidity was too

much even for a juggernaut like my Iris.

Massive embolism.

Pow! I got her to the hospital,

but it was too late.

The point is they meant to kill me

but they got her instead.

All in the name of

political correctness.

There's an oxymoron

if ever I heard one.

So, there's your book, Nathan.

You mind if I call you Nathan?

- Look, Dean...

- Just Coleman.

All my other titles

I have given away.

Coleman. Look, I'm sorry but I write

fiction, and at the moment I'm...

Believe methis thing will read

like The Manchurian Candidate.

They murdered the wrong person,

for Christ's sakes!

For one word! Spooks!

Spooks! It's unbelievable.

Let me tell you something, Nathan.

My father was a

saloonkeeper in New Jersey.

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Nicholas Meyer

Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945) is an American writer and director, known for his best-selling novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, and for directing the films Time After Time, two of the Star Trek feature film series, and the 1983 television movie The Day After. Meyer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), where he adapted his own novel into a screenplay. He has also been nominated for a Satellite Award, three Emmy Awards, and has won four Saturn Awards. He appeared as himself during the 2017 On Cinema spinoff series The Trial, during which he testified about Star Trek and San Francisco. more…

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