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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.
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- Drama
- Martin Brest
- 1993-01-08
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.
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.
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.
- Martin Brest
- R
- 22
Frank is a retired Lt. Col. in the US army. He's blind and impossible to get along with. Charlie is at school and is looking forward to going to college. To help pay for a trip home for Christmas...
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- Martin Brest
- R
- Al Pacino
Dec 23, 1992 · A chance meeting with a beautiful young woman who smells like soap and water -- Frank prides himself on noticing such things, and takes this as a measure of his lust for life -- leads the blind...
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.
