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The Human Stain
2003
· Movie
· 106 min
D
MEANRANK
56/100
Every rating
41–66
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 41, highest is Kinopoisk on 66.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- Robert Benton
- Writer
- Nicholas Meyer
- Studio
- Cinepsilon, Miramax, Lakeshore Entertainment, Cinerenta
- Released
- 29 October 2003
- Country
- France, Germany, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $24.9M
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