Smoke
1995
- Director: Wayne Wang
- Seen by this director: Maid in Manhattan, Anywhere but Here
- Based on the book by Paul Austen
- Cast: Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Jared Harris, Harold Perrineau Jr, Stockard Channing, Forest Whitaker, Ashley Judd
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Harvey Keitel - many
- William Hurt - many
- Jared Harris – Chernobyl, The Crown, Lincoln, Fringe, Sherlock Holmes Game of Shadows, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Igby Goes Down, How to Kill Your Neighbour’s Dog, Happiness, I Shot Andy Warhol, Dead Man, The Last of the Mohicans
- Harold Perrineau Jr – Lost, 28 Weeks Later, Dead Like Me, Matrix etc, Lulu on the Bridge, Romeo & Juliet, I’ll Fly Away
- Forest Whitaker – many
- Stockard Channing – Sparkle, Out of Practice, Bright Young Things, Practical Magic, The Ex-Wives Club, Edie & Pen, Six Degrees of Separation, Grease
- Ashley Judd – Twin Peaks, Frida, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Double Jeopardy, Heat
- Why? Liked it the first time.
- Seen: Once before. Now 1 June 2024
Augie (Keitel) runs a corner tobacco shop
in Brooklyn where regular customers get their smokes, talk baseball and
philosophy, gossip. Their stories intertwine but they don’t know much about
each other. Augie takes a photo every single day from the same spot outside his
shop and fills photo albums with them. Paul (Hurt) a widower offers homeless
(supposedly) Rashid (supposedly) (Perrineau) a place to stay for a couple of
days, which he does then takes off to confront his father (supposedly)
(Whitaker). Ruby (Channing) shows up after 18 years demanding help with her and
Augie’s (supposedly) daughter (Judd), a pregnant (supposedly) coke head.
It’s a bit stagy at times and the dialog
doesn’t always work but the cast is good. I especially remember Channing. This
is the first film with her I saw and she has become a big favourite. Perrineau
is also very good.
It’s 1990. Everybody smokes. Constantly. It’s a good film anyway.
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