By the dawn of the Thanksgiving holiday, Charlie Simms won't travel home to see his parents. He expects to find a job to make some money and help him to support his living at the Baird School. Responding to a job opening, asking for someone to take care of an invalid during the weekend, he meets Frank Slade (Al Pacino), a reformed Colonel of the United States Army, blinded by an accident and destroyed by self pity and drunkenness. Their first meet doesn't bring good anticipations from Simms, the Colonel is sarcastic, mean and angry. But Charles problems are just beginning. His classmates decide to pull a prank on the school's headmaster and Charlie ends up in the position of identifying the authors. A scholarship student, Charlie is blackmailed to tell who did the prank; if he tells he will be recommended to Harvard, if he doesn't, he will be expelled and loose all his hopes. The Disciplinary Committee will meet on Monday and he'll have the weekend to decide what to do.What Charlie doesn't even imagine is that the Colonel doesn't plan to spent the holiday in his cottage. He plans a travel, a tour of pleasures, in New York City. Slowly, the rough layer over the Colonel's personality starts to peel out and we begin to understand him and even like him.Al Pacino delivers one of his best performances as the sad Colonel Slade, an admirer of women and capable of guessing what perfume they are wearing and through it her entire personality and appearance. Based on the book by Giovanni Arpino, Scent of a Woman is a movie that deals with subtle changes happening inside its characters; the Colonel's rediscovery of life and Charlie's coming-to-maturity. It doesn't take too long until Colonel Slade finds out about Charlie's situation in school, advising him about what is the right thing to do. Martin Brest directs a deeply touching movie about someone confined in the darkness who will find the light again and about someone who can't just throw away what believes, even if his own future is at stake. A combination that is very hard to resist.
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