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Absence of Malice is a 1981 American drama neo noir thriller film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Paul Newman, Sally Field, Wilford Brimley, Melinda Dillon and Bob Balaban. The title refers to one of the defenses against libel defamation , and is used in journalism classes to illustrate the conflict between disclosing damaging personal ...
Dec 18, 1981 · Absence of Malice: Directed by Sydney Pollack. With Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon. When a prosecutor leaks to a Miami reporter that a liquor wholesaler is suspected in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel.
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- Drama, Romance, Thriller
- Sydney Pollack
- 1981-12-18
The first approach, no doubt, would be to criticize this film's portrait of an investigative newspaper reporter -- to say that no respectable journalist would ever do the things that Sally Field does about, to, and with Paul Newman in this movie.
Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his supposed crime...
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- Sydney Pollack
- PG
- Paul Newman
Michael Colin Gallagher is the son of a long dead Mafia boss who is a simple liquor warehouse owner. Frustrated in his attempt to solve a murder of a union head, a prosecutor leaks a false story that Gallagher is a target of the investigation, hoping that he will tell them something for protection.
When reporter Megan gets a tip from the local DA office, she prints a story implicating a warehouse owner in the disappearance of a union head. Desperate to prove his innocence, the business owner confronts Megan and they team up in pursuit of the truth. 1,929 IMDb 6.9 1 h 56 min 1981. X-Ray PG.
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