History Film / ScentOfAWoman

* LeaveBehindAPistol: The main plot. Slade is a disgraced veteran with nothing left to live for.

* ImprobablyCoolCar: Twice. The Dean's new car is so out of place, that the students get inspired to pull a PracticalJoke. Later, a blind guy and a working-class teenager are driving around Manhattan in a Ferrari.

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:For all main characters. Slade's nephew argues that Slade was a mean-spirited person, who deserved to get blind from an accident he caused himself. As Charlie has endured Slade's arrogance and saved him from suicide, Slade turns up at the hearing, to save Charlie. The corrupted Dean is humiliated twice in front of all his students; in the prank, and at the hearing. While they don't get caught specifically, the boys who pulled the prank get probation, and you can tell the Dean is gonna do everything in his power to make their lives Hell from now on]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:For all main characters. Slade's nephew implies that Slade was a mean-spirited person, who deserved to get blind from an accident he caused himself. As Charlie has endured Slade's arrogance and saved him from suicide, Slade turns up at the hearing, to save Charlie. The corrupted Dean is humiliated twice; in the prank, and at the hearing. While they don't get caught specifically, the boys who pulled the prank get probation, and you can tell the Dean is gonna do everything in his power to make their lives Hell from now on]].

* CoveredInGrunge: [[spoiler:The Dean and his car.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:While they don't get caught specifically, the boys who pulled the prank get probation and you can tell the Dean is gonna do everything in his power to make their lives Hell from now on]].

* KangarooCourt: What Charlie faces when he goes before the Disciplinary Committee in front of the entire school. [[spoiler:That is, until Frank comes in]].

* KangarooCourt: What Charlie faces when he goes before the Disciplinary Committee in front of the entire school. [[spoiler:That is until Frank comes in]].

* HandicappedBadass: Let it be said the colonel is blind. Not disabled. He can dance the tango and if one is within an arm's reachm, he can throw said person into the wall and choke the person with little effort.

* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: During the disciplinary hearing, the dean intends to reward George for (barely) cooperating with the investigation. Frank calls the school out on this, however, and the disciplinary committee ultimately decides George should receive "neither commendation nor reward" for his participation.

** Frank shrugs off the insensitive comments about Frank's life and actions that left him blind and [[spoiler:one of Frank's buddies dead]] fromm his nephew when he crashes his brother's Thanksgiving dinner with Charlie. But Frank completely loses it when his nephew unnecessarily insults Charlie.

''Scent of a Woman'' is a 1992 movie which tells the story of a blind, retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade (Creator/AlPacino) and a Vermont boarding school student named Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell). Hired by the colonel's niece to help him while she and her husband and children get away for Thanksgiving, Charlie is told it will be an easy job. It isn't. The colonel, unbeknownst to his nice, is planning a trip to the BigApplesauce and is dragging Charlie along with him. Hijinks and drama ensues as the Colonel is staring down his own dark path and past filled with many regrets and a young Charlie burdened by a choice lingering back at his school: To snitch on some students or not.

* LikeYouWereDying

* BadassGrandpa: Frank Slade is this trope.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bradley Whitford and Gabrielle Anwar all appear.

* LargeHam: The retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel himself.
** Implied to be something of a guise adopted to stop the utter misery suggested under NoIndoorVoice hidden.

* SadistTeacher: The Dean shows signs of this.
** To clarify, [[spoiler:he actively intends to reward George, the snitch who sells out his friends, for doing so, not punish those George identified because it was such a vague answer, and has the nerve to talk about the school's morals and integrity and how it develops character, and how Charlie has betrayed those aspects of the establishment. Frank, by contrast, argues that he doesn't know if Charlie is right by not speaking up, but declares that it actively displays those values the school holds dear, because Charlie won't sell someone out for himself]].

''Scent of a Woman'' is a 1992 movie which tells the story of a blind, retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel (Creator/AlPacino) and a Vermont boarding school student (Chris O'Donnell).

* BadassGrandpa: Frank Slade is this trope
* BerserkButton: Frank shrugs off the insensitive comments of his nephew when he crashes his brother's Thanksgiving dinner with Charlie. But Frank completely loses it when his nephew unnecessarily insults Charlie.

* BlindDriving: Frank Slade briefly drives a car at top speed, following directions from a terrified Charlie in the passenger seat. And when he gets pulled over for speeding, [[spoiler: he talks his way out of a ticket and the cop never realizes he was blind.]]
* DirtyCoward: George who sold his friends out the instant the situation looked bad. Especially compared to Charlie, whom the boys view disdainfully, who is willing to go down for Them.
* DistractedFromDeath: Slade tries to make this situation happen by sending Charlie on a SnipeHunt, Charlie realizes what's happening and [[InterruptedSuicide goes back in time to stop Slade from killing himself]].
* HandicappedBadass

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Frank Slade lost his sight while juggling with a hand grenade.
* Jerkass: The school Dean, who actively attempts to bribe Charlie - who does not come from a rich background like the other students - with recommendations and better college places; When Charlie refuses to sell out the pranksters, he instead opts to change his tune, and plans on rewarding George for selling out his own friends.
* KangarooCourt: What Charlie faces when he goes before the Disciplinary Committee in front of the entire school. That is until Frank comes in.

* LaserGuidedKarma: While they don't get caught specifically, the boys who pulled the prank get probation and you can tell the Dean is gonna do everything in his power to make their lives Hell from now on.

* PrecisionFStrike: "Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are out there, fuck you too!"

* RousingSpeech: Frank's defense of Charlie may be the epitome of this.

** To clarify, he actively intends to reward George, the snitch who sells out his friends, for doing so, and has the nerve to talk about the school's morals and integrity and how it develops character, and how Charlie has betrayed those aspects of the establishment. Frank, by contrast, argues that he doesn't know if Charlie is right by not speaking up, but declares that it actively displays those values the school holds dear, because Charlie won't sell someone out for himself.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: The logic which the three pranksmen follow and which they think will save them.

* PrecisionFStrike: "Harry, Jimmy, Trent, wherever you are, fuck you too!"

* DistractedFromDeath: Slade tries to make this situation happen by sending Charlie ona SnipeHunt, Charlie realizes what's happening and [[InterruptedSuicide goes back in time to stop Slade from killing himself]].

* ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules: What Charlie believes in.

''Scent of a Woman'' is a 1992 movie which tells the story of a blind, retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel (AlPacino) and a Vermont boarding school student (Chris O'Donnell).

For the 2011 KoreanDrama of the same name, go [[ScentOfAWomanSK here]].

* OneSceneWonder: Gabrielle Anwar.