Snakkle Celebrates The 20-Year Anniversary Of Scent Of A Woman!

Al Pacino’s Academy Award-winning role as Frank Slade as the abrasive, blind and alcoholic Colonel is a memorable one. He may be blind, but Frank can see a lot more than some, and he won’t hesitate to say so (including expletives)! Charlie keeps at eye on the sometimes-suicidal Frank, who ends up becoming more of a mentor than a job to Charlie. You may remember the scene in which Frank gives him some sage advice about woman and then proceeds to lead Donna in a perfect tango on the dance floor.

Trained in method acting, the stand out star of iconic films The Godfather (1972) and Scarface (1983), Al Pacino scored two Academy Award nominations in 1993: one for his lead in Scent of a Woman (for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor) and another for his supporting role Glengarry Glen Ross. Since then, Pacino hasn’t been giving anyone any cement shoes; instead, he returned to the stage in 2010 as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. While he’s enjoyed a number of relationships with costars and has three children from previous relationships, this former on-screen mobster and military man has never tied the knot.

George Willis, Jr., one of Charlie’s good friends, also witnesses the prank played on Headmaster Trask. But when Trask strong arms the two to give up names in exchange for a strong letter of recommendation, George is the one who caves. Poor George though, without a Frank to stick up for him ends up losing face and sans recommendation in the end.

Hoffman’s career was only just getting started when he starred in Scent of a Woman. Who knew this supporting actor would evolve into a leading man and A-list award-winning actor? Hoffman starred in movies like Almost Famous (2000) and Cold Mountain (2003) before his highly acclaimed performance as Truman Copote in Capote (2005). Hoffman’s acting versatility can be seen in the highly anticipated film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Plutarch Heveansbee.

Headmaster Trask is the victim of a school prank at the elite New England preparatory school that Charlie attends. Knowing that Charlie and his friend George know the identity of the perpetrators, Mr. Trask tries to bribe it out of them, offering guaranteed admission to Harvard University. James Rebhorn plays a convincingly uptight headmaster intent on finding out who did it, even if it means compromising an innocent student’s integrity.

Already well-known for his longstanding experience in TV, James Rebhorn made an ambitious move to film in 1992 starring in Scent of a Woman, Basic Instinct and My Cousin Vinny. Rebhorn was such a good well-meaning bad guy, he played similar variations of Mr. Trask in a number of TV series guest spots or supporting roles in movies; his most enduring being on Law & Order, which he appeared on sporadically over a span of 16 years! You can watch him now as Special Agent Reese Hughes in White Collar and as Carrie Mathison’s father in the series Homeland.

Chris notices Donna from across the room of a restaurant and Frank insists that they make their introduction. Actress Gabrielle Anwar plays the soft-spoken beauty, waiting for a date, who ends up letting the blind but debonair Frank take her for an impressive spin on the dance floor.

While the English actress will always be remembered for her tango with Al Pacino, she stayed busy with acting after Scent of a Woman. You may remember her as the lovely Queen Anne in The Three Musketeers (1993) or as Princess Margaret in The Tudors. With an actress mother and award-winning film producer and editor for a father, Anwar is film royalty in more ways than one! You can watch her as non-princess Fiona Glenanne in the series Burn Notice.

Elite prep school student, Charlie Simms, is on Thanksgiving break but he needs a job. Luckily for him, Colonel Frank Slade is blind and in need of a caretaker; however, the job description didn’t include verbal abuse (or advice, Frank might say) on the daily! But after Charlie saves Frank’s life, Frank rescues Charlie from having to rat out fellow student, defending him in front of a committee looking to punish the perpetrators of a school prank.

Chris O’Donnell has a McDonalds breakfast to thank for his rise to fame. No really! After he showed the world he can serve McDonalds to a pro, like a pro, O’Donnell won the lead of the 1990 dramedy Men Don’t Leave. He increased exposure with Fried Green Tomatoes and then Scent of a Woman, for which he was awarded a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. O’Donnell may have made a bad move turning down the role of James Edwards in Men In Black, but his subsequent success in TV on shows like Grey’s Anatomy and most recently on NCIS: Los Angeles have kept him in the limelight. The youngest of seven children, O’Donnell is now married with five children of his own.

Randy, Frank’s brother, takes a lot of Frank’s verbal abuse in the family. Randy and Frank have a strained relationship, as evidenced in a dinner scene with Frank’s family when Charlie finally finds out how Frank became blind, and with Randy ending up in a headlock.

After Scent of a Woman, Bradley Whitford starred in a slew of TV movies, series and major motion pictures. One of his most notable roles was as Josh Lyman in the award-winning series The West Wing, which earned him three Golden Globe and three Emmy nominations, one of which he won in 2001. Whitford is political outside of his acting though, he’s written occasionally for The Huffington Post and speaks publically at liberal protests.