The Man Without a Face (1993)

From my favorite movies..

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The first must-see film of the year.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Mel Gibson directs and stars in this 1993 drama based on the novel which co-stars Nick Stahl, Margaret Whitton and Geoffrey Lewis. This takes place in the late 1960's where we meet Charles Norstadt (Stahl), a troubled boy who wants to leave home and attend military school. Soon, he meets Justin Mcleod (Gibson), a former teacher with a scarred face who takes him under his wing, tutoring him and they become friends. The late, Whitton (Major League) plays Charles' mother, Catherine and Lewis (Tango & Cash) plays Police Chief, Stark. I've always liked this film and Gibson and Stahl are great together. I recommend this.

The Man Without A Face (1994)Plot In A Paragraph: Chuck (Nick Stahl) wants to leave home, but can't make the grade for military school. Then he finds out the disfigured recluse named McLeod (Gibson) living nearby is an ex-teacher.It's a very touching and sad movie, and it doesn't fall into some of the clichés that you would expect. Nick Stahl gives a great performance and I think it features one of Gibson's best performances. Without going into spoiler territory, I hate a lot of what happens during the second half of the movie, and I was close to tears at the end. It took me a while to recognise where I knew Chucks sister (Gabby Hoffman) from... Eventually I placed her in one of my top 10 movies of all time (Field Of Dreams) There are small roles for Geoffrey Lewis and Richard Masur.Hamlet showed Gibson wasn't scared of taking chances; and instead of a safe choice Gibson chose this character driven movie as his first directorial effort. The Man Without A Face grossed $24 million dollars to end 1993 The 67th highest grossing movie of the year.

Chuck wants to leave home but can't make the grade for boarding school. Then he finds out the disfigured recluse living nearby is an ex-teacher. I own all 4 of Mel Gibson's movies that he directed with the best being Braveheart always followed by Apocalypto and The Passion of Christ which i found very interesting not that interesting for a sequel tho and then we have The Man Without a Face this is his directional debut and i think it's one of his most underrated works and it's kinda overlooked a lot from people and maybe even critics i chose to review it now cause Hackshaw Ridge his new movie comes out today and i said why don't i review this? The Man Without a Face is a film about an ex-teacher who has a disfigured face and he starts a really good friendship with this kid Charles E. 'Chuck' Norstadt played by young then Nick Stahl who later on starred alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Bruce Willis in Sin City (2005) and besides those 2 this is definitely comes in 3rd place as my favorite film that he stars in and the friendship between Justin McLeod (Gibson) and Chuck (Stahl) was pretty spot on and very inspiring as a film and it has to do with good writing and good pacing that Gibson created is one of his most underrated works and so far all 4 of his movies that he has directed i really liked them i hope that his new film is good too which it will be definitely and Hollywood needs to forgive him he might be crazy but he has a lot of talent and i can't wait to see where he will go next.

This was a well acted movie, nothing to grandeur to be sure but interesting enough. The film has a boy who actually wants to go to a boarding school which is kind of a nice change of pace, but he does not really have the grades to do so. Well lucky for him there is a recluse living nearby, and he just happens to be a teacher. Well he tries to get this guy's help, but the guy is rather hesitant to do so. He is disfigured thanks to an incident in the past and he is frowned upon by the community. He does take the boy in though as you knew he would have to do seeing as there would not be much of a movie if he did not and the two form a bit of a bond. Not really a big one where the guy makes up for the fact the boy is fatherless, but a student teacher one to be sure. Well something happens and the boy is caught at this mans house by some authorities and there is a big court scene and we learn why the man has lost half his face and why he is frowned upon by the community. Usually I would say this movie is trying to say people unjustly accuse people of things based on appearances and such, but it just does not work in this case as there was sufficient evidence and circumstances to believe the man could have done what he was accused of. Still, Mel Gibson turns in a good performance and it was somewhat entertaining to watch, just nothing that would top any favorite movie lists of mine.