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Human Stain, The (2003)

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Release Date: October 31, 2003 (Limited)
On DVD: July 20, 2004
Genre: Drama
Running Time: 106 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated R for language and sexuality/nudity.
Director: Robert Benton
Writer: Nicholas Meyer
Cast: Kerry Washington, Anna Deavere Smith, Wentworth Miller, Harry J. Lennix, Jacinda Barrett, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Nicole Kidman, Anthony Hopkins

During the summer of 1998, a light-skinned African American classic professor, Dr. Coleman Silk, becomes the target of a racial controversy when he calls some students "spooks." His life begins to unfold as facts come forth, such as the fact that he had an affair with a cleaning woman half his age, that he isn't actually Jewish, and that his race is not what it appears to be. Read more

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