Absence of Malice

1981 Drama | Other
67%

Michael Gallagher, the son of an infamous Mafia boss, rejects his family's criminal ways to lead a law-abiding life. When a union leader disappears, a frustrated FBI investigator leaks a story to the press that he intends to question Gallagher, and the hapless businessman finds his life rapidly falling apart in the aftermath of the bad publicity. Sydney Pollack's drama, starring Paul Newman and Sally Field