It’s thanksgiving weekend in New York and Lt. Colonel Frank Slade (Al Pacino) is in town for a slice of the good life: fine cuisine, beautiful women chauffered limousines and a suite at the Waldorf-Astoria. The naive and young Charlie Simms (Chris O’Donnell) is reluctantly along for the ride, getting the education of a lifetime. Slade is one of life’s true originals, now blind, irascible yet with a touch of the poet. Charlie is an earnest young prep student facing a difficult crossroads in his life. Their raucous, revealing and at times hysterical adventure in New York will leave them both changed forever.
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ACMI Identifier
305915
Language
English
Audience classification
MA
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Academy awards (Motion pictures)
Feature films → Feature films - United States
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Blindness
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)