The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town. When his affair with a young troubled janitor (Kidman) is uncovered, the secret Silk had harbored for over fifty years from his wife, his children and colleague, writer Nathan Zuckerman, fast explodes in a conflagration of devastating consequences. It is Zuckerman who stumbles upon Silk’s secret and sets out to reconstruct the unknown biography of this eminent, upright man, esteemed as an educator for nearly all his life, and to understand how this ingeniously contrived life came unraveled.
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Cold Mountain Production Notes (2003)
“Cold Mountain… soared in his mind as a place where all his scattered forces might gather.” –Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain When Charles Frazier’s debut novel Cold Mountain was first published in 1997, his story of a soldier’s search for home and love in the last days of the Civil War quickly received rhapsodic acclaim. Critics…
Cold Mountain (2003)
1860s America — In a country torn in two by war, it will take an extraordinary journey for people to come together as one. This journey is at the heart of Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier’s National Book Award-winning novel about love, friendship, nature, survival and the changing of America at the end of the Civil…