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  1. Oct 31, 2003 · What makesThe Human Stain” ambitious and fascinating is how it considers both of these journeys. Once he decides to pass, Coleman Silk finds it relatively easy to exist as a white Navy officer, college student and professor; he must have had problems, but we don’t see them.

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  2. The Ending Explained: “The Human Stain” revolves around Coleman Silk, a former college professor who loses his job after being falsely accused of racism. Throughout the film, Coleman conceals his true identity as a black man who has “passed” as white for most of his life.

  3. The Human Stain is set in 1998 in the United States, during the period of President Bill Clinton's impeachment hearings and scandal over Monica Lewinsky. It is the third of Roth's postwar novels that take on large social themes.

    • Philip Roth
    • 2000
  4. The Human Stain is a 2003 American drama film directed by Robert Benton. Its screenplay, by Nicholas Meyer, is based on the novel of the same name by Philip Roth. The film stars Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Gary Sinise, and Ed Harris.

  5. Based on Philip Roth's novel, The Human Stain tells the story of Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins), a college professor living in a world of political correctness where racism runs rampant, whose...

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    • Robert Benton
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    • Anthony Hopkins
  6. Jan 23, 2004 · Unsurprisingly for a Phillip Roth adaptation, The Human Stain evidently deals with a range of complex issues, including race, identity, class and sex.

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  8. THE HUMAN STAIN is a flawed but engrossing story about the way that people try to escape their pasts. It's also about the way that carefully constructed new personas, no matter how scrubbed and burnished, can't erase the stain of the original.

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