Scent of a Woman (1992) Review
Baird Academy is a prep school for forming young men, and though they claim to be forming the future leaders of the country, it appears to be populated almost entirely by those who you would never want to be in such a position. The one possible exception is Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell), who hails not from the old money of the Northeast, but from a tiny burg in Oregon and is attending Baird on a scholarship. He doesn't fit into the "in" crowd, and perhaps he shouldn't want to.
Yet Charlie is intimidated by them and their money nonetheless, so when he sees several of the boys setting up for a gag that sprays paint on the headmaster's car, he naturally assumes that he shouldn't be a snitch and tell what he knows, even though the headmaster offers to get him a free ride into Harvard. It's even less tempting when one of the other boys who was with him (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) approaches him as a "friend" and says that they don't do that.
