The Human Stain ***

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinese, Wentworth Miller, Jacinda Barrett
Director: Robert Benton

Coleman Silk is a college professor that has just been fired for supposedly making a racial slur about two of his students. Faunia Farely is a woman who lives in fear of her ex-husband. When they meet, they find something in the other that will heal each other's pain, but it won't be easy, especially since both have big secrets in their pasts that they have kept hidden for a long time. Coleman's is the bigger of the two, and is handled excellently as we learn his backstory. Excellent acting all around, and a good story about the secrets we keep and the way love can redeem tortured souls.