Curtain: The December newspaper movie of the month
'Absence of Malice"
Before there was "Richard Jewell," there was "Absence of Malice," the biting 1981 film that stars Sally Field as a gullible, overly ambitious reporter who unfairly maligns a businessman played by Paul Newman.
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