Scent Of A Woman (1992)


Chris O'Donnell         Charlie Simms
Philip Seymour Hoffman  George Willis Jr
Nicholas Sadler         Harry Havemeyer
Todd Louiso             Trent Potter
Al Pacino               Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
James Rebhorn           Mr Trask
Gabrielle Anwar         Donna
Richard Venture         W R Slade
Bradley Whitford        Randy
Rochelle Oliver         Gretchen
Margaret Eginton        Gail
Tom Riis Farrell        Garry
Matt Smith (III)        Jimmy Jameson

Directed by:            Martin Brest
Produced by:            Ronald L. Schwary, Martin Brest


A young student is forced into accompanying a blind, embittered former Army officer on a hedonistic trip 
to New York City and comes-of-age in the process.

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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.

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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.