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Scent of a Woman
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.
1992 · Directed by Martin Brest · 156 min · Drama · 40 frames
Tagline
Frank Slade has a plan. It includes a weekend of fast cars, the tango, high living and a loaded forty five. And Charlie is coming along for the ride.
Crew
- Screenplay: Bo Goldman
- Cinematography: Donald E. Thorin
- Edited by: Harvey Rosenstock, Michael Tronick, William Steinkamp
- Music: Thomas Newman
- Production design: Angelo P. Graham
- Produced by: Martin Brest
Cast
- Al Pacino as Lt. Col. Frank Slade
- Chris O'Donnell as Charlie Simms
- James Rebhorn as Mr. Trask
- Gabrielle Anwar as Donna
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as George Willis, Jr.
- Richard Venture as W.R. Slade
- Bradley Whitford as Randy
- Ron Eldard as Officer Gore
- Rochelle Oliver as Gretchen
- Margaret Eginton as Gail
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, City Light Films
- Budget: $31,000,000
- Box office: $134,100,000
- Themes: vietnam veteran, new york city, blindness and impaired vision, scholarship, boarding school, tango, thanksgiving, limousine, new hampshire, colonel
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