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.
Cast
- Anthony Hopkins as Coleman Silk
- Nicole Kidman as Faunia Farley
- Ed Harris as Lester Farley
- Gary Sinise as Nathan Zuckerman
- Wentworth Miller as Young Coleman Silk
- Jacinda Barrett as Steena Paulsson
- Harry Lennix as Mr. Silk
- Clark Gregg as Nelson Primus
- Anna Deavere Smith as Mrs. Silk
- Lizan Mitchell as Ernestine