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Smoke (1995)

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Average Rating: 7.8/10
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Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 1

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Movie Info

A Brooklyn cigar shop is the setting for this drama from director Wayne Wang that interweaves the stories of several characters that have fractured family relationships in common. Harvey Keitel is Auggie Wren, poetic owner of the Brooklyn Cigar Company, a store that he considers the center of the world -- a place where all of humanity eventually parades through. One of his regular customers is Paul Benjamin (William Hurt), a writer and a broken shell of a man whose pregnant wife was shot and

R, 1 hr. 48 min.

Drama, Comedy

Directed By: Wayne Wang , Paul Auster

Written By: Paul Auster

In Theaters: Jun 9, 1995 Wide

On DVD: Mar 4, 2003

Miramax

Cast

William Hurt
Paul Benjamin
Harvey Keitel
Auggie Wren
Forest Whitaker
Cyrus Cole
Harold Perrineau Jr.
Thomas (Rashid) Cole
Victor Argo
Vinnie
Erica Gimpel
Doreen Cole
Stockard Channing
Ruby
Giancarlo Esposito
Tommy
Mel Gorham
Violetta
Peggy Gormley
Sue
Baxter Harris
First coroner
Jared Harris
Jimmy Rose
Karen Robert Jackson
A Brooklyn resident
Ashley Judd
Felicity
Murray Moston
Waiter
Deirdre O'Connell
Waitress
Clarice Taylor
Grandma Ethel
Mary B. Ward
April Lee
Malik Yoba
The Skunk
John Lurie
A musician
Paul Geier
Second coroner
Michelle Hurst
Aunt Em
Jose Zuniga
Jerry
RuPaul
A dancer
Billy Martin
A musician

Critic Reviews for Smoke

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A deceptively quiet film that celebrates ordinary life as well as the art of storytelling.

July 23, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com Source: EmanuelLevy.Com

You just want to draw it....and never let it out. Great movie.

March 11, 2006 Comment

Clint Morris

Moviehole

brilliantly evocative

May 13, 2005 Comment

Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

Puff away, and breathe in the smoke while it lasts.

January 7, 2005 Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com

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Michael Dequina

TheMovieReport.com

Quirky, offbeat treat.

December 27, 2004 Comment

Carol Cling

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Simples e envolvente, o filme traz personagens inteligentes e articulados que merecem nossa aten��o - e o elenco � fant�stico.

February 7, 2004 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

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Interweaving storeys with a cigar shop as a central point that all the various characters have in common. An Intriguing and often random people study, highly recommended!

September 7, 2009

Anthony Lawrie

Super Reviewer

"Smoke" takes place in 1990 in the mythical land of Brooklyn where Auggie(Harvey Keitel) is the proprietor of a neighborhood cigar store. One of his regular customers is Paul(William Hurt), a once famed novelist who has not been able to write anything since his pregnant wife was killed at a bank robbery some years

November 22, 2005