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 job as an assistant to an irritable, blind, medically retired Army lieutenant colonel.
- $31 million
- December 23, 1992
- Martin Brest
- Thomas Newman
Jan 8, 1993 · A retired blind colonel hires a student to spend Thanksgiving with him in New York, where he plans to sue a military academy for expelling his grandson. The film won an Oscar for Pacino's performance and features a famous courtroom speech.
- Martin Brest
- 513
- 4 min
A blind ex-army officer takes a young student to New York for a suicide mission, but changes his mind along the way. The web page provides three summaries of the film's plot, with details about the characters, the setting, and the events.
Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade. Chris O'Donnell. Charlie Simms. James Rebhorn. Mr. Trask. Gabrielle Anwar. Donna. Philip Seymour Hoffman. George Willis, Jr. Watchlist. TRAILER. Watchlist. In...
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- Martin Brest
- R
- Al Pacino
Dec 23, 1992 · Scent Of A Woman. Roger Ebert December 23, 1992. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. The colonel sits alone in his room, drinking and nursing his self-pity. He is a mean, angry, sarcastic man. We sense he has always been lonely, but never lonelier than now, when he is trapped inside blindness.
Find out who starred in and worked on the 1992 film Scent of a Woman, directed by Martin Brest and starring Al Pacino. See the full list of actors, writers, producers, composers, and more on IMDb.
Synopsis. Driven by an extravagant, tour-de-force performance by Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman is the story of Frank Slade (Pacino), a blind, retired army colonel who hires Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell), a poor college student on the verge of expulsion, to take care of him over Thanksgiving weekend. At the beginning of the weekend, Frank takes ...
