CAL Film Series: Absence of Malice

Enjoy a short discussion preceding the screening of Absence of Malice, the penultimate film in our series discussing journalism in the movies. The screening will be followed by a community discussion. Free and open to the public!

Directed by Sydney Pollack in 1981.

Sally Field stars as a newspaper reporter who prints an unattributed story about a secret investigation and then becomes romantically involved with the subject of the investigation, played by Paul Newman, with disastrous results. The film shows us the potential dangers of journalism when the quest for a good story sets rigor and ethics aside.