Upon receiving her second Oscar for another film, Sally Field famously said: "I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!" While ridiculed for it at the time, a movie like Absence of Malice is an attestation to her claim. Watching Field, Newman, even Wilford Brimley ... they're all just so, likable. The story is a fore-bearer of our times, about how journalism was becoming reckless, how reporters were racing to be the first to report, without fully authenticating or understanding how they could destroy lives. But mainly, the cast's magnetism is what makes this satisfying.
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