Scent of a Woman is a 1992 film which tells the story of a
preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to an irascible, blind, medically retired Army officer. It stars
Al Pacino,
Chris O'Donnell,
James Rebhorn,
Gabrielle Anwar, and
Philip Seymour Hoffman. It is a
remake of a movie made by
Dino Risi in 1974,
Profumo di donna, in which
Vittorio Gassman played one of his best known roles.
The movie was adapted by
Bo Goldman from the novel
Il buio e il miele () by
Giovanni Arpino and from the 1974 screenplay for the movie
Profumo di donna by
Ruggero Maccari and
Dino Risi. It was directed by
Martin Brest.
