Scent of a Woman (1992)
Storyline
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. 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.
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Cast
Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Rebhorn, Ron Eldard, Tom Riis Farrell, Francie Swift, Gene Canfield, Nicholas Sadler, Frances Conroy, Gabrielle Anwar, Baxter Harris, Todd Louiso, June Squibb, David Lansbury, Bradley Whitford, Dan Gifford, Leonard Gaines, Richard Venture, Rochelle Oliver, Sally Murphy, Michael Santoro, Anh Duong, William Beckwith, Peter Carew, Jack Mulcahy, Margaret Eginton, Matt Smith, Joseph Palmas, Michael Simon, Mansoor Najee-ullah, J.T. Cromwell, Paul Stocker, Mike Lisenco, Divina Cook, Russell Gibson, Carlo Giuliano, George Grafas, Luke L. Hansen, Kenneth Kopolovicz, Eric Reid Schroeder, Lucy Smith, Paul Zimmerman
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Reviews
80
The New York Times
The good thing is that the principals and film makers make the absolute most of a conventional opportunity.
80
Los Angeles Times
But it's essentially a tour de force for Pacino, and he sustains us through the slow passages by working with a closed-in intensity that turns each scene into a kind of mini-movie complete with its own ticking time bomb. [23Dec1992 Pg. 1]
75
By the end of Scent of a Woman, we have arrived at the usual conclusion of the coming-of-age movie, and the usual conclusion of the prep school movie. But rarely have we been taken there with so much intelligence and skill.
75
ReelViews
If there's anything special about the film, it's that on this occasion, the emotional realism of the characters, especially Slade, is heartwrenchingly believable.
75
Entertainment Weekly
In the end, Scent of a Woman offers little more than lumbering simulation of Rain Man's nimble magic. But Pacino's performance-scabrous, tender, ripely theatrical-is a master showman's trick.
