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starring: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Luther Adler directed by: Sydney Pollack List Price: $14.94 Amazon.com's Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.95 (26%)Prices subject to change. Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 9780767804325 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0767804325 Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 15, 1998 Running Time: 116 minutes Sales Rank: 3780 Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 1981 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: High-minded story about the harm that news media can inflict. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/13/2008 Starring: Paul Newman Wilford Brimley Run time: 116 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Sydney Pollack Amazon.com essential video: The ethics of the press are roundly slapped around in an entertaining if not always believable drama from director Sydney Pollack. Sally Field is the Miami reporter who is set up to leak information on a dead-end murder investigation. A sneaky government official (a marvelous, rubber-band-spinning Bob Balaban) provides the information that implies liquor distributor Paul Newman is under investigation. When the story runs, it uncorks a legal quagmire that puts the spotlight on presumably innocent lives. As the lawyers explain, the paper's story is accurate, even though it may be untrue. The details of the story are sharply drawn by first-time screenwriter and former reporter Kurt Luedtke (who later went on to win an Oscar scripting Pollack's Out of Africa); the film could be used in a Media Ethics 101 class. Newman secretly counterattacks in a clever plot to derail the process that quickly encompasses his jittery friend (Oscar nominee Melinda Dillon). Field's continuing ethical gaps--including falling in love with her subject--stretch the film's credibility. Then again, who wouldn't fall for Paul Newman in the Florida sun? --Doug Thomas Average Rating:
 Rating:  - One of the most important movies ever made...I can't improve on the first sentence from W.Corse's excellent 2/3/05 review: "Absence of Malice is one of my all-time favorites, and the first "older" movie that I grabbed when it was finally released on DVD. In my opinion this is one film that should be required viewing for every journalism major in the USA. " Some of other reviewers' comments make my eyes cross. (1) The movie is "slow"? (Not if you're paying attention to Paul Newman's brick-by-brick implementation ... Read More Rating: - Plenty of maliceI enjoyed this movie immensely. It points up the contrast between human beings as they are and as they are portrayed in newspapers when they become newsworthy. Great performances by Newman and Field. Rating:  - Thoughtful riposte to "investigative journalists"Paul Newman is cast as a businessman whose only links to organised crime are tenuous at best -via an uncle (Luther Adler -excellent as ever)-but because he is the son of a long dead mobster ,is believed by a hotheaded Federal prosecutor (Bob Balaban)to possibly be able to help them crack an ongoing investigation that has stalled .This investigation revolves around the disappearance of a prominent mobster in Miami where the action takes place . Seeing an opportunity and untramelled by such ... Read More Rating: - Great movie with silly love story.How unbelievable is it that Paul and Sally would end up in bed after Newman's friend, (played by Melinda Dillon), commits suicide because of the news story Sally's character writes. The dialog between Gallagher, (Newman), and Carter, (Field), is pointed, dynamic and, frankly, brilliant, but it shouldn't be happening in the bedroom. It doesn't make any sense. The quirky Elliot Rosen, (played brilliantly by Bob Balaban) is the engine driving this bus off a cliff. To Wit: FBI Agent Eddie Frost ... Read More Rating: - An accurate portrayal of journalismWhen this movie came out, I was a reporter at a daily newspaper. I went to "Absence of Malice" fully prepared to hate it. Instead, I came away thinking that it was an accurate and believable portrayal of what happens in a newsroom. To this day, I am bothered that journalists too often fail to understand the impact their words have on people's lives. Most journalists I've known prefer to insulate themselves from the public and never hear about the negative effects of the stories they write. I highly recommend ... Read More |
