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Scent of a Woman (1992)
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Overview
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Release Date:
23 December 1992 (USA)
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Tagline:
Col. Frank Slade has a very special plan for the weekend. It involves travel, women, good food, fine wine, the tango, chauffeured limousines and a loaded forty-five. And he's bringing Charlie along for the ride.
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A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated. full summary | add synopsis
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Thanksgiving
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Blind
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Prank
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Headmaster
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Colonel
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Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 5 wins
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8 nominations
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NewsDesk:
(9 articles)
Scenes We Love: Half Baked
(From Cinematical. 20 October 2009, 12:15 PM, PDT)
Chris O'Donnell and Michael Fasbender in the Irish side of upcoming TV and DVDs (IrishCentral)
(From IrishCentral. 25 September 2009, 2:45 AM, PDT)
(From Cinematical. 20 October 2009, 12:15 PM, PDT)
Chris O'Donnell and Michael Fasbender in the Irish side of upcoming TV and DVDs (IrishCentral)
(From IrishCentral. 25 September 2009, 2:45 AM, PDT)
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Delicious high-class drama
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Al Pacino | ... | Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade |
 | Chris O'Donnell | ... | Charlie Simms |
 | James Rebhorn | ... | Mr. Trask |
 | Gabrielle Anwar | ... | Donna |
 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | ... | George Willis, Jr. (as Philip S. Hoffman) |
| Richard Venture | ... | W.R. Slade |
 | Bradley Whitford | ... | Randy |
| Rochelle Oliver | ... | Gretchen |
| Margaret Eginton | ... | Gail |
 | Tom Riis Farrell | ... | Garry |
 | Nicholas Sadler | ... | Harry Havemeyer |
 | Todd Louiso | ... | Trent Potter |
| Matt Smith | ... | Jimmy Jameson |
| Gene Canfield | ... | Manny |
| Frances Conroy | ... | Christine Downes |
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Rated R for language.
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157 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Certification:
Australia:M |
Canada:18 (Ontario - 2006) |
Iceland:L |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
Brazil:Livre |
USA:R (certificate #32138) |
Singapore:NC-16 (re-rating) |
Singapore:PG (cut) |
Finland:K-3 |
New Zealand:PG |
Argentina:13 |
Chile:14 |
Germany:12 |
Peru:14 |
South Korea:15 (video rating) (cut) |
South Korea:18 (DVD rating) |
Spain:T |
Sweden:11 |
UK:15 |
Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) |
Canada:AA (Ontario) |
Canada:PG (Manitoba)
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Trivia:
During the disciplinary meeting, Trask tells Slade 'You are out of order!', a line told to another of Al Pacino's characters in ...And Justice for All. (1979).
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Revealing mistakes: During the "Tango Scene" the first time the piano is heard striking hard chords, one can see the piano in the background, but no one is at the piano.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofed in "The Critic: L.A. Jay (#1.9)" (1994)
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Soundtrack:
Evangeline
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What is the name of the song to which Frank and Donna do the tango?more
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I do not tend to go along with Hollywood-created cult figures, that kind of hero-worship, idol-making, whatever: you can have your Julia Roberts and such like making endless and mindless blockbuster hits with such insipid nonsense as `Pretty Woman', `Notting Hill' and so on, but it has to be something more serious like Joel Schumacher's `Dying Young' or even Steven Soderbergh's `Erin Brockovich' to convince me that Ms Roberts can/might be a good actress. The same goes for Al Pacino. Until the arrival of `Scent of a Woman' he was just merely another actor of those who come out of the Hollywood mass-manufacturing industry. `Scent of a Woman' changed all that: here Pacino shows he is a grand master, a brilliant actor. It is not important that this film is a redoing of an Italian original, or even whether this film won him an Oscar: the film stands up for its own merits, and Pacino reaches colossal heights in this well-directed drama, ably and willingly aided by a refreshing Chris O'Donnell. Very much a two-man film as the characterisation centres masterfully on these two leading characters, Pacino had to carry out a truly theatre-like interpretation of a blind retired colonel; Bo Goldman's dialogues are up to the challenge, creating some magnificent monologues which Pacino so superbly enacted.
My rating is somewhat higher than the surprisingly low IMDb user rating: a memorable and classic piece of serious cinema which puts Pacino into a very high category.