Absence of Malice (1981)
Country: US
Technical: col 116m
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon
Synopsis:
A liquor salesman is smeared by the FBI over a mob killing they think he might know something about, and they feed the story to the press with tragic consequences.
Review:
Conscience-raising newspaper film with good performances but sometimes sounding too much of a 'pamphlet dialogué' with characters reduced to mouthpieces.
Country: US
Technical: col 116m
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon
Synopsis:
A liquor salesman is smeared by the FBI over a mob killing they think he might know something about, and they feed the story to the press with tragic consequences.
Review:
Conscience-raising newspaper film with good performances but sometimes sounding too much of a 'pamphlet dialogué' with characters reduced to mouthpieces.
Country: US
Technical: col 116m
Director: Sydney Pollack
Cast: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon
Synopsis:
A liquor salesman is smeared by the FBI over a mob killing they think he might know something about, and they feed the story to the press with tragic consequences.
Review:
Conscience-raising newspaper film with good performances but sometimes sounding too much of a 'pamphlet dialogué' with characters reduced to mouthpieces.