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Smoke (1995)
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Critic Consensus: Smoke draws in a stellar ensemble, holds the audience's attention with a robust blend of connected stories, and sends viewers out on a pleasurable high.
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Cast
as Auggie Wren
as Paul Benjamin
as Rashid Cole
as Cyrus Cole
as Ruby McNutt
as Felicity

as Vinnie
as Doreen Cole
as Ethel
as The Creeper

as April Lee
as Jimmy Rose
as Tommy
as Jerry

as Dennis

as Book Thief
as Waitress
as Aunt Em

as Violet

as Irate Customer

as Cyrus Jr.

as Sue

as Baseball Announcer

as A Brooklyn resident

as Lawyer No. 1
as A musician

as A musician

as Lawyer No. 2
as A dancer

as Roger Goodwin

as Waiter
Critic Reviews for Smoke
All Critics (29) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
With a cigar box of subplots, this episodic yarn is more numbing than boring, though its increasingly compelling narrative has the ill-timed misfortune to collapse completely in its final talky segment.

The movie is a delicate creation, with no big punch line or payoff. Watching it, I was in the moment: It was about these people wandering lost through their lives. Afterward, I felt good about them.
Interesting drama with thriller elements.
A deceptively quiet film that celebrates ordinary life as well as the art of storytelling.
You just want to draw it....and never let it out. Great movie.
brilliantly evocative
Audience Reviews for Smoke
Paul Benjamin: if you're gonna die, what's more important, a good smoke or a good book. So he smoked his book. "Where there's smoke... there's laughter!" Smoke is a very good movie and wasn't quite what I was expecting. I'm not too familiar with Wayne Wang's work, only having seen Anywhere But Here before, but I was thoroughly impressed with this film. What we have here is basically an unstructured story, which was extremely popular in the nineties, centered around a cigar store in Brooklyn. The story follows a variety of characters from the cigar store owner, one of his customers, a young kid, an unknown father, and a woman from the past. It all melts together really well. This isn't a film for anyone. It's a conversational movie that has a lot of long monologues and storytelling, but for fans of these type of movies, it's heaven. I can't really think of better actors for the movie either. The main two, Harvey Keitel and William Hurt give terrific performances as always. Smoke is a movie for the person who likes quiet movies that stay away from action and bullshit, that remain real and are just telling the story of human beings. That's what this is to me and that's why I like this movie, and movies like it so much. There's nothing flashy about the characters, there's no big twists, no action to speak of; it's just real life. Smoke blends comedy and drama together really well as well. It's too bad that this isn't a more well known film, but in the end it doesn't really matter. A great film is a great film.

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There is a scene where Harvey Keitel does a monologue that goes on for what seems like ten minutes. The camera is still and all we are doing is watch a man talk. Nonetheless, it is brilliant..and that is only one part of this film.
Super Reviewer
Literary film about a group of people, centred around a New York tobacconist and scripted by Paul Auster. You can tell an author wrote the script as there's lots of monologues and both Harvey Keitel and William Hurt get to tell stories during the film. All very erudite.

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