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.

• DirectorRobert Benton
• Release29 October 2003
• Genre
  Drama / Romance
• Duration1h 46m
• Budget$30,000,000
• Revenue$24,900,000
• Rate
  

  6.0
  490 reviews
• Productions

  Cinepsilon, Miramax, Lakeshore Entertainment, Cinerenta, Stone Village Pictures