Based on the novel: The human stain / by Philip Roth.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2003.

Special features (10 min.): behind-the-scenes featurette (8 min.); tribute to cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier (2 min.).

"Enhanced for 16x9 televisions"--Container.

Director of photography, Jean Yves Escoffier ; edited by Christopher Tellefsen ; music by Rachel Portman.

Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Gary Sinise, Wentworth Miller, Jacinda Barrett, Harry Lennix, Clark Gregg.

Coleman Silk is a respected professor at a New England college who suddenly finds his life unraveling after a comment he makes about some African-American students is misinterpreted as a racial slur. As the scandal heats up, Nathan Zuckerman, a writer researching a biography of Silk, begins to dig deeply into Silk's life. Eventually, matters are made worse when Coleman's affair with a young married janitor named Faunia Farley is exposed. But amid the controversy, Silk must struggle to keep his greatest secret, a secret he's held for the majority of his life, from becoming made public.

MPAA rating: R; for language and sexuality/nudity.

DVD, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.

In English or dubbed French; with optional French or Spanish subtitles.

Closed-captioned.