Absence of Malice PG
In America can a man be guilty until proven innocent?
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 7, 2010
- Originally Released: 1981
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Paul Newman | |
Performer: | Sally Field, Melinda Dillon & Bob Balaban | |
Directed by | Sydney Pollack |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
Well-meaning liberal message story.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
We get the impression that this movie is a pastiche of Sydney Pollack's previous movies. It's uninspired and none of its elements manage to move us. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Absence of Malice does not invalidate All the President's Men. But with entertainment values -- and a moral sense -- every bit as high as that film's, it observes that there is an underside to journalistic gallantry.
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TIME Magazine
...Unusual and rewarding....One of [Newman's] better characters in years...
New York Times
Rating: 3/4 --
I not only liked this movie despite its factual and ethical problems -- I'm not even so sure they matter so much to most viewers.
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Chicago Sun-Times
A splendidly disturbing look at the power of sloppy reporting to inflict harm on the innocent.
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Variety
Rating: 3/5 --
gripping little thriller
Shadows on the Wall
Product Description:
While investigating the death of a local union leader, an ambitious young reporter (Sally Field as Megan) becomes involved in a dangerous triangle of love, deceit, and national espionage. After all story leads fall through, shady government agent Rosen cajoles Megan into befriending financier, Gallagher (Paul Newman), a man with filial ties to the Mafia. Becoming Gallagher's confidant, Megan conducts a secret investigation of his life and is soon convinced that Gallagher is involved with the murder. Megan then publishes an article containing a staggering amount of incriminating evidence against him.
Written by American journalist Kurt Luedtke, ABSENCE OF MALICE takes an honest look at the world of journalism. Its dialogue and characters are of the upmost realism. Newman delivers a riveting performance as the innocent "patsy," fingered by the government. Director Pollack and writer Kurt Luedtke team up again four years after this film to script the epic OUT OF AFRICA.
Written by American journalist Kurt Luedtke, ABSENCE OF MALICE takes an honest look at the world of journalism. Its dialogue and characters are of the upmost realism. Newman delivers a riveting performance as the innocent "patsy," fingered by the government. Director Pollack and writer Kurt Luedtke team up again four years after this film to script the epic OUT OF AFRICA.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 126,018
- UPC: 014381684223
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