The Human Stain

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Year:2003
Director:Robert Benton
Written by:Nicholas Meyer (Screenplay), Philip Roth (Novel)

Script Synopsis: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.
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