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Scent of a Woman (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

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Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
156 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1992 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Martin Brest

Written By:
Giovanni Arpino
Bo Goldman

Actors:
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
June Squibb ..... Mrs. Hunsaker
Ron Eldard ..... Officer Gore
Sally Murphy ..... Karen Rossi
Michael Santoro ..... Donny Rossi
Alyson Feldman ..... Francine Rossi
Erika Feldman ..... Francine Rossi
Julian Stein ..... Willie Rossi
Max Stein ..... Willie Rossi
Anh Duong ..... Sofia
Leonard Gaines ..... Freddie Bisco
David Lansbury ..... Michael
Joseph Palmas ..... Bellhop
Baxter Harris ..... George Willis, Sr.
Francie Swift ..... Flight Attendant
Michael Simon ..... Oak Room Waiter
William Beckwith ..... Oak Room Maitre D'
Mansoor Najeeullah ..... Skycap
J.T. Cromwell ..... Ballroom Waiter
Peter Carew ..... Bootblack
Paul Stocker ..... Doorman
Mike Lisenco ..... Cab Driver (as Michael Lisenco)
Divina Cook ..... Night Maid
Russell Gibson ..... Barber (uncredited)
Jack Mulcahy ..... Oak Room Patron (uncredited)
Lucy Smith ..... Airport Traveler (uncredited)

Synopsis:

Charlie Simms is a boy from Oregon who attends Baird School a Boys boarding school. Not unlike most of the other boys who come from affluent backgrounds Simms is there on a scholarship. He hangs around with George Willis, who's a daddy's boy, and his friends. Now George's friends decides to pull a little prank on the pompous headmaster. The headmaster learns that Charlie and George know who pulled the prank and they refuse to say who. He gives the Thanksgiving Holiday to think about it. He also tells Charlie that he's recommending him to an Ivy League College. Charlie then goes off to a Thanksgiving job--taking care of retired Colonel Frank Slade who's blind when his family goes to visit some family for Thanksgiving. After they leave Slade tells Charlie that he's taking him to New York for his own Thanksgiving celebration.

In New Hampshire, Charlie Simms attends the Baird School, an all boys boarding school with rigorous classes and expensive enrollment. Yearning for cash from a part-time job so he can return to his family in Oregon for upcoming Christmas Break, the innocent Simms accepts a job for 'babysitting' at a nearby household. The job is not what he expects, for he is commissioned to watch over an unlikeable, blunt behaved blind ex-colonel named Slade who has a keen ability at selecting his aides. Because of his sympathetic and integral nature, Charlie agrees to the job. Before he can even locate his level of comfort in the job, Simms is unexpectedly taken to New York City with the colonel, where the ex-military man has several agendas of his own.

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. At the beginning of the weekend, Frank takes Charlie to New York, where he reveals to the student that he intends to visit his family, have a few terrific meals, sleep with a beautiful woman and, finally, commit suicide. The film follows the mis-matched pair over the course of the weekend, as they learn about life through their series of adventures. Though the story is a little contrived and predictable, it pulls all the right strings, thanks to O'Donnell's sympathetic supporting role and Pacino's powerful lead performance, for which he won his first Academy Award. Scent of a Woman is based on the 1975 Italian film Profumo Di Donna.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 31 October, 2010.