The Human Stain
2003 · 106 MIN · IMDB 6.2 · 32,917 VOTES · DIR. Robert Benton
Overview
Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,156 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:03:27 You mean to tell me you're President of the United States
00:06:01 whose protector he is and whose need of him is enormous.
00:08:48 And they're our friends, for God's sake!
00:11:45 yeah, their kind of stupidity was too much even for a juggernaut like my Iris.
00:14:35 the time it took him to write his book
00:17:48 You like that sort of thing?
00:21:33 I hear that and everything in me just sort of unclenches, and the
00:25:40 I mean, this is very serious business.
00:32:55 My turn, huh?
00:37:01 I should have never let her go off with the kids.
00:40:04 Hey.
00:42:51 Please no more of this!
00:47:12 And if you don't use protection does she?
00:50:07 Hey, with the only 4.0 grade average, who else were they going to choose?
00:54:05 Not really.
00:57:08 Look-Look what's happening here.
01:01:42 Yes. Um...
01:06:15 Steena, this is my mother.
01:11:58 Uh... Eggs Benedict and ham?
01:15:33 Even the nurse said-she said later, There wasn't a heartbeat.
01:21:24 No. No revenge
01:25:47 Mom, you'll tell me
01:30:49 I haven't told anyone until... you.
01:35:23 It's in the mail.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,156
Dialogue density10.9 lines / min
First line00:03:27
Final line01:35:23
Production Record
DirectorRobert Benton
LanguageEnglish
Budget$30,000,000
Revenue$24,900,000
IMDb votes32,917