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Smoke - DVD

SKU: 5165019 | Release Date: 3/4/2003

Rating: R for Adult Situations

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Rating: R for Adult Situations
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 1995
Length: 112 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: General Dramas
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1

Synopsis

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 killed near the store. When Paul's life is saved one day by a young black man named Rashid (Harold Perrineau, Jr., the writer and his rescuer strike up a friendship and begin searching for Rashid's long-lost father (Forest Whitaker). At the store, Auggie is surprised by the appearance of Ruby (Stockard Channing), an ex-girlfriend who informs him that her pregnant, drug-addicted daughter Felicity (Ashley Judd) may also be his -- and is in dire need of help. Screenwriter Paul Auster based the script for Smoke on a 1990 short story he wrote for "The New York Times." He also wrote and directed the film's sequel (of sorts), Blue in the Face (1995). ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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Languages/Sound

Eng/Fre

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Additional Features

cc Feature commentary with screenwriter Paul Auster, producers Peter Newman and Greg Johnson, and actor Harvey Keitel Deleted scenes - Andrew McCarthy in the Smoke Shop, The Chinese Restaurant Behind the scenes Original featurette B roll montages - Rashid Meets Little Brother, Felicity, Wayne Directs Forest and Harold, Directing Stockard Channing, Rashid Confronts Cyrus Auggie Wren's Christmas Story Dolby Digital Surround Sound French language track Widescreen (1.85:1) enhanced for 16x9 televisions

Chapters

Side #1 --
1. "The Weight of Smoke" [6:31]
2. Balancing Scales [4:10]
3. "My Life's Work" [6:55]
4. A Houseguest [5:24]
5. "I'm Looking for My Nephew" [3:18]
6. Scoping Out the Garage [4:13]
7. "For Old Times' Sake" [7:28]
8. "An Ugly Piece of Hardware" [7:05]
9. Tokens of Appreciation [6:46]
10. A Family Reunion [5:14]
11. Father and Son [7:34]
12. A Knack for Trouble [5:08]
13. Making Amends [4:02]
14. The Creeper Pops In [4:23]
15. Helping Ruby [2:59]
16. Family Picnic [7:40]
17. Auggie's Story [14:34]
18. End Credits [8:35]

Cast

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

Crew

Art Director: Jeff McDonald
Cinematographer: Adam Holender
Costume Designer: Chuck Keehne
Producer: Greg Johnson
Production Designer: Kalina Ivanov
Editor: Maysie Hoy
Producer: Peter Newman
Composer (Music Score): Rachel Portman ,Dmitry Shostakovich
Editor: Christopher Tellefsen
Executive Producer: Bob Weinstein ,Harvey Weinstein
Director: Wayne Wang
Producer: Diana Phillips
Casting: Billy Hopkins ,Heidi Levitt
Screenwriter: Paul Auster
Executive Producer: Satoru Iseki
Costume Designer: Claudia Brown
Sound/Sound Designer: Drew Kunin
Producer: Hisami Kuroiwa
Story Author: Paul Auster
Short Story Author: Paul Auster
Editor: Maisie Hoy
Composer (Music Score): Dmitri Shostakovich
Featured Music: Dmitri Shostakovich

Smoke: AMG Review
Jason Clark , AMG

A refreshingly appointed slice-of-life ode to Brooklyn, New York, Wayne Wang's low-key drama is quietly enchanting in its refusal to trump up its subject matter, which includes drugs, adoption and misanthropic writers. Everything is presented in a matter-of-fact manner, stemming, it seems, from writer-novelist Paul Auster's credible and detailed screenplay, which doesn't offer tidy solutions for its characters' conflicts. William Hurt and Harvey Keitel marvelously inhabit the film's almost-mystical portrayal of its beloved borough. Keitel's lengthy and stunningly delivered monologue near the close of the film almost singularly makes the whole picture something special. Much of the cast and filmmakers reunited for a largely improvised (and less successful) "sequel," entitled Blue in the Face, which adopted a looser, less-structured attitude, but retains many of the same characters and locations. ~ Jason Clark, All Movie Guide

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