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How far would you go to escape the past?
Directed by Robert Benton
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.
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Jacinda Barrett
Steena Paulsson

Harry Lennix
Mr. Silk

Clark Gregg
Nelson Primus

Anna Deavere Smith
Mrs. Silk

Lizan Mitchell
Ernestine

Kerry Washington
Ellie

Phyllis Newman
Iris Silk

Margo Martindale
Psychologist

Ron Canada
Herb Keble