Al Pacino
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
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Scent of a Woman is a 1992 American drama film produced and directed by Martin Brest that tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a short-term job near Thanksgiving as a companion/assistant to a retired Army lieutenant colonel who is blind, depressed, and irritable.
Jan 8, 1993 · Scent of a Woman: Directed by Martin Brest. With Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar. A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
Scent of a Woman (1992) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Dec 23, 1992 · Martin Brest's "Scent of a Woman" takes Charlie and the colonel and places them in a combination of two reliable genres. There's the coming-of-age formula, in which an older man teaches a younger one the ropes.
In New Hampshire, Charlie Simms attends the Baird School, an all boys boarding school with rigorous classes and expensive enrollment. Yearning for cash from a part-time job so he can return to his family in Oregon for upcoming Christmas Break, the innocent Simms accepts a job for "babysitting" at a nearby household.
Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle As the irascible, drunken Frank Slade, Al Pacino is convincingly obnoxious and loutish, but the character doesn't grow: this is a lout with, underneath it all,...
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To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
A young student is forced into accompanying a blind, embittered former Army officer on a hedonistic trip to New York City and comes-of-age in the process.
Dec 23, 1992 · To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
Dec 23, 1992 · "Scent of a Woman," a glorified father-son buddy film with a needlessly sensitive title, offers Al Pacino the kind of opportunity actors dream about.
