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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 .. Read more

Starring	William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channing, Forest Whitaker
Director	Wayne Wang
Genres	Comedy, Drama

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- Wang's full atonement for the melodramatic excesses of The Joy Luck Club is a collaboration with the novelist Paul... read more on Time Out
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  A film apart
  
  This film resembles 'coffee and cigarettes', the last Jarmush in date. Very american, but not in the mainstream/blockbuster sense.
  
  A ... read more »
  
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  - 28 Feb 2005 at 18:42
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  ...you are innocent when you dream...
  
  great film! we wonder why they do not make such good simple films anymore? great 80s and Tom Waits - you are Innocent When You Dream....
  
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- - slavitsandglenn
  - 1 review
  - 01 Apr 2012 at 01:29
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  How much does smoke weigh?
  
  Compeling, brilliantly written film. Its not for the impatient viewer but has many beautiful moments and wonderful acting. Keitel particularly taking on a role ... read more »
  
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- - buffyrules
  - 202 reviews
  - southend on sea
  - 22 Jun 2011 at 11:48
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  Smoke on!
  
  Harvey Keitel owns a cigar shop and some people from the neighbourhood congregate there to tell stories and hang out. The movie dips into each of the ... read more »
  
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- - Mosco
  - 201 reviews
  - London
  - 16 Aug 2010 at 10:14
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  Smoke 1995
  
  Well acted, interesting characters, a nice ' small ' film. Nothing special, but leaft a pleasant taste in the viewer,
  
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- - Ave
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  - Rickmansworth
  - 06 Apr 2010 at 22:59
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  Smoke
  
  great movie, one of my favourites
  
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  - London
  - 09 Jan 2010 at 18:37
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  Smoke
  
  Smoke is my favourite film of all time. It potrays normal people in a very realistic and non-judging light. It shows people in their most human, natural state, ... read more »
  
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- - beckbeck7777
  - 3 reviews
  - Wallington
  - 20 Dec 2009 at 11:12
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  Intriguing & Convincing
  
  (19th July 2008) I wrote all sorts of notes on this one. Evenly paced, thoughtful and considered. Strongly played with delightful moments, tender, warm & ... read more »
  
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- - locococo
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  - The Surrey Hills
  - 23 Sep 2009 at 16:44
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  Smoke
  
  Very interesting film. A lives through pictures
  
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  - Bristol
  - 25 Jul 2009 at 10:29
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  A good movie, and characters, to sit back and enjoy
  
  Very good and well worth watching. Harvey Keitel's cornershop run is the focal point for some of the characters that meet in the movie. Enjoyable ... read more »
  
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- - Allue
  - 4 reviews
  - London
  - 22 Mar 2009 at 20:42
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  Smoke
  
  Very Enjoyable. Just my kind'v film. The story turns on a neighbourhood tobacconist shop with regular customers and their interactions, relationships with... read more »
  
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  A film apart
  
  This film resembles 'coffee and cigarettes', the last Jarmush in date. Very american, but not in the mainstream/blockbuster sense.
  
  A ... read more »
  
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  - Manchester, England
  - 28 Feb 2005 at 18:42
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  great film
  
  I loved this film i love Harvey Keitel and the charachters etc were excellent and the story told over lunch at the end was fitto soften the hardest of hearts.<... read more »
  
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  - 26 Mar 2008 at 11:45
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  Paul Auster never disappoints me
  
  I'm a huge Paul Auster fan, so I was quite surprised to hear he'd written two screenplays that I hadn't heard of.
  
  Very touching, I ... read more »
  
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- - StrawberryThief
  - 9 reviews
  - London
  - 18 Jul 2008 at 13:02
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  life afirming
  
  what can i say. The only film that makes you appreciate your friends, life and family and at the same time makes you want to reach for the nearest packets of ... read more »
  
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  - glasgow
  - 14 Jul 2005 at 07:37
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  great yarn from the cigar seller
  
  William Hurt and Harvey Keitel are brilliant. The two protagonists are both men of few words and the film had a dry sense of humour which left me smiling. If ... read more »
  
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- - greentomatofan
  - 24 reviews
  - Dorset, England
  - 05 Sep 2008 at 19:33
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  Smoke
  
  Very Enjoyable. Just my kind'v film. The story turns on a neighbourhood tobacconist shop with regular customers and their interactions, relationships with... read more »
  
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- 717764
- - a customer
  - Stratford-upon-Avon
  - 28 Feb 2009 at 20:26
- - 0
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  A good movie, and characters, to sit back and enjoy
  
  Very good and well worth watching. Harvey Keitel's cornershop run is the focal point for some of the characters that meet in the movie. Enjoyable ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 730697
- - Allue
  - 4 reviews
  - London
  - 22 Mar 2009 at 20:42
- - 0
  - 0
  Smoke
  
  Very interesting film. A lives through pictures
  
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- 789028
- - a customer
  - Bristol
  - 25 Jul 2009 at 10:29
- - 0
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  Intriguing & Convincing
  
  (19th July 2008) I wrote all sorts of notes on this one. Evenly paced, thoughtful and considered. Strongly played with delightful moments, tender, warm & ... read more »
  
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- 813884
- - locococo
  - 100 reviews
  - The Surrey Hills
  - 23 Sep 2009 at 16:44
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  Smoke
  
  Smoke is my favourite film of all time. It potrays normal people in a very realistic and non-judging light. It shows people in their most human, natural state, ... read more »
  
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- 841261
- - beckbeck7777
  - 3 reviews
  - Wallington
  - 20 Dec 2009 at 11:12

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  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 ...