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Scent of a Woman (1992) 7.8
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Metascore: 59/100
Reviews: 278 user | 39 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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| Al Pacino | ... | ||
| Chris O'Donnell | ... | ||
| James Rebhorn | ... | ||
| Gabrielle Anwar | ... | ||
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | ... |
George Willis, Jr.
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Rochelle Oliver | ... | |
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Margaret Eginton | ... | |
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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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23 December 1992 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Perfume de mujer See more »Box Office
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$63,895,607 (USA)Company Credits
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Lt. Col. Frank Slade: You're back too fast. You didn't get my cigars, did you? Get outta here, Charlie.
[loads the .45]
Charlie Simms: I thought we had a deal.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: I welched. I'm a welcher. Didn't I tell you?
Charlie Simms: No, what you told me was, that you gave me all the bullets.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: I lied.
Charlie Simms: Yeah, well you could've fooled me.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: And I did.
[pause]
[...]
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Written by Julio C. Sanders (as Julio Cesar Sanders) and César Felipe Vedani (as Cesar Filipe Vedani)
Performed by The Tango Project
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Frank and Charlie's driver of the limousine is called Manny, as well as Manolo. Al Pacino's left hand in his movie Scarface was also called Manny, and Manolo. See more »Goofs
Frank and Charles order drinks before Frank does the tango. The waiter never arrives with the drinks. Even though Frank and Charles had changed tables, they hadn't moved so far that the waiter would not have been able to find them. See more »Quotes
[Charlie comes back to the room to see Frank putting on his uniform]Lt. Col. Frank Slade: You're back too fast. You didn't get my cigars, did you? Get outta here, Charlie.
[loads the .45]
Charlie Simms: I thought we had a deal.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: I welched. I'm a welcher. Didn't I tell you?
Charlie Simms: No, what you told me was, that you gave me all the bullets.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: I lied.
Charlie Simms: Yeah, well you could've fooled me.
Lt. Col. Frank Slade: And I did.
[pause]
[...]
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"Adiós muchachos"Written by Julio C. Sanders (as Julio Cesar Sanders) and César Felipe Vedani (as Cesar Filipe Vedani)
Performed by The Tango Project
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Pacino's Col. Slade is a portrait of turmoil. Not because he's blind, but because he's never been able to rise above the blindness and still find peace with himself and with the world. One of the great tragic characters of recent years. His story is much like Hickey's in "Iceman Cometh" or Howard Beale's in "Network." They never think they do good in the world with what they have, so they find themselves in this dark hole and they stay there. No one can help them out. No one looks after them. No one feels what they feel. As years go on and opportunities are lost, the dark hole gets filled with a lot anger, sorrow and possibly regret. Can they be healed? Do they want to be healed?
In "Scent of a Woman," Pacino presents this dark, gloomy character perfectly in his Oscar winning performance. He overwhelms you with his constant bellowing and ordering of O'Donnell's Charlie. He's a man who never left the Military. My guess is that you can never take the military of out the man, only the man out of the military. He doesn't blame anyone or anything for his blindness. He's man who thinks that somehow, he was destined to "tour the battlefield" this way.