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Scent of a Woman (1992) 8.0
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8.0/10 from 181,659 users
Metascore: 59/100
Reviews: 304 user | 49 critic | 14 from Metacritic.com A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated. Director:Martin Brest |
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George Willis, Jr.
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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 university; to help pay for a trip home for Christmas, he agrees to look after Frank over thanksgiving. Frank's niece says this will be easy money, but she didn't reckon on Frank spending his thanksgiving in New York. Written by Rob Hartill
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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.Genres:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
8 January 1993 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Perfume de mujer See more »Box Office
Budget:
$31,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
$63,895,607 (USA)Company Credits
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Lt. Col. Frank Slade: Where's the booze? Flowin' like mud around here.
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Music by José Padilla (as Jose Padilla)
Performed by The Tango Project
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According to his book, Chris Rock asked to audition for the part of Charlie but was turned down. See more »Goofs
When Pacino falls on Park Ave, his hair is messed and dry. When they get back to the hotel immediately after, his hair is slicked back and obviously wet. See more »Quotes
[repeated line]Lt. Col. Frank Slade: Where's the booze? Flowin' like mud around here.
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Connections
Referenced in Siskel & Ebert: When a Man Loves a Woman/PCU/With Honors/No Escape/The Favor (1994) See more »Soundtracks
La VioleteraMusic by José Padilla (as Jose Padilla)
Performed by The Tango Project
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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.