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The human stain, Miramax Films and Lakeshore Entertainment present ; a Lakeshore Entertainment and Stone Village production, in association with Cinerenta-Cineepsilon ; producers, Gary Lucchesi, Scott Steindorff, Tom Rosenberg ; screenplay by Nicholas Meyer ; directed by Robert Benton

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MPAA rating: Rated R for language and sexuality/nudity

The human stain

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Miramax Films and Lakeshore Entertainment present ; a Lakeshore Entertainment and Stone Village production, in association with Cinerenta-Cineepsilon ; producers, Gary Lucchesi, Scott Steindorff, Tom Rosenberg ; screenplay by Nicholas Meyer ; directed by Robert Benton

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Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made public

Opening titles/On the road -- "Spooks" -- "Something's wrong" -- Respecting the precision of words -- Fishing for a girl -- "Action is the enemy of thought" -- "What are you thinking?" -- Just end it? -- Lester's visit -- Rich with contempt -- "What about me?" -- LIfe's loves -- "Dance for me" -- Peripeteia -- Big deals -- "Crow that doesn't know how to be a crow" -- "Freak accident" -- Coleman's lie -- "Human stain" -- End credits

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