If you loved The Wild One, try Absence of Malice

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Wild One

1953 · dir. László Benedek

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Absence of Malice

1981 · dir. Sydney Pollack

What they share

Theysit in Crime / Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Wild One, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Absence of Malice is

Here's a film unafraid of newsprint. A reporter prints a story implicating an innocent businessman in a crime, triggering a chain of tragic events. The movie makes sure we understand newspaper ethics, if nothing else.

If you loved The Wild One, try Absence of Malice

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Absence of Malice

What they share

What Absence of Malice is

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