Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins (The Silence Of The Lambs) and Nicole Kidman (The Hours) along with Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump) and Ed Harris (Apollo 13) star in the dramatic thriller The Human Stain, based on the Philip Roth novel and directed by Academy Award winner Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer). Coleman Silk (Hopkins) has a secret - a terrible fifty-year-old secret that the esteemed college classics professor kept hidden from everyone including his wife, his children and his down-and-out young lover (Kidman) - and it's about to ruin his entire life.