Scent of a Woman (1992)

Scent of a Woman rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb8/10· 367K votes

Rotten Tomatoes82%

Metacritic57%

TMDb7.786/10· 4K votes

With 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 8/10 on IMDb and 57/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About 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.

Cast of Scent of a Woman

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  Al Pacino

  as Lt. Col. Frank Slade

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  Chris O'Donnell

  as Charlie Simms

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  James Rebhorn

  as Mr. Trask

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  Gabrielle Anwar

  as Donna

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  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  as George Willis, Jr.

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  Richard Venture

  as W.R. Slade

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  Bradley Whitford

  as Randy

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  Ron Eldard

  as Officer Gore

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  Rochelle Oliver

  as Gretchen

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  Margaret Eginton

  as Gail

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  Tom Riis Farrell

  as Garry

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  Nicholas Sadler

  as Harry Havemeyer

Scent of a Woman facts

Budget

$31M

Box office

$134.1M

Our take on Scent of a Woman

Martin Brest's 1992 drama pairs two people the world tends to overlook. Charlie, a scholarship student at a private prep school, takes a Thanksgiving job minding Frank Slade, a blind, retired Army lieutenant colonel whose sharp tongue masks something raw underneath. What begins as a chore becomes an unlikely education, as the boy's decency and the older man's fury rub against each other and slowly change both. It's a character piece that leans on performance and conversation rather than plot momentum, so patience is rewarded here. Ideal for viewers who like their dramas talky, emotional and built around two people figuring each other out over a long weekend.