Smoke (1995)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Director:

Wayne Wang

Guionista:

Paul Auster (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

9 junio 1995 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Drama

Frase comercial:

Where there's smoke... there's laughter!

Plot:

A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.

Plot Keywords:

Smoke | Brooklyn | Writer | New York | Auto Mechanic

Premios:

7 wins & 5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A nice, quiet film, light years away from the (Hollywood) mainstream

Reparto

Giancarlo Esposito	...	OTB Man #1, Tommy
José Zúñiga	...	OTB Man #2, Jerry
Stephen Gevedon	...	OTB Man #3, Dennis (as Steve Gevedon)
Harvey Keitel	...	Augustus 'Auggie' Wren
Jared Harris	...	Jimmy Rose
William Hurt	...	Paul Benjamin
Daniel Auster	...	Book Thief
Harold Perrineau	...	Thomas 'Rashid' Cole (as Harold Perrineau Jr.)
Deirdre O'Connell	...	Sue the Waitress
Victor Argo	...	Vinnie
Michelle Hurst	...	Aunt Em
Forest Whitaker	...	Cyrus Cole
Stockard Channing	...	Ruby McNutt
Vincenzo Amelia	...	Irate Customer
Erica Gimpel	...	Doreen Cole

También conocida como:

Smoke - Raucher unter sich (Alemania)
Cigarrillos (Colombia) (cable TV title) [es]
Cigarros (Argentina) [es]
Smoke (Spain) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Duración:

112 min

País:

Alemania | USA | Japan

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (DuArt) | Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Netherlands:16 | Iceland:L | South Korea:Todo | Singapore:NC-16 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:S | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:IIA | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | UK:15 | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

Phillipstown, New York, USA

Compañía:

Miramax Films

Trivialidades:

Harold Perrineau is only two years younger than Forest Whitaker who plays his father.

Errores:

Sin sincronía de Audio o Visual: Mention is made of opening up a bottle of Mateus, when it is clearly a bottle of Chianti, not the distinctive Mateus shape.

Citas:

Auggie Wren: If you can't share your secrets with your friends then what kind of friend are you?
Paul Benjamin: Exactly... life just wouldn't be worth living.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Scream (1996/I)

Banda de Sonido:

Cigarettes and Coffee

A nice, quiet film, light years away from the (Hollywood) mainstream

The characters are genuine, funny, sensitive, tragic... just human. They are sympathetic with their small weaknesses and their daily problems. The movie gives a realistic description of the daily life of ordinary people in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn has the star role. In fact the movie seems like a declaration of love to this city, although when compared to Woody Allen's "Manhattan", the approach is completely different.

The message is in a way surprising (maybe because of my European bias): Even in this money driven, rough, fast living, time-is-money, urban and individualistic environment there is a lot of love, friendship and humanity. Humanity means also that we do things which eventually do not make very much sense, are not logical and which may be very emotional. Smoking belongs to such activities. It is an activity which needs a work break. It gives us an opportunity for a stop and for starting rethinking issues. Therefore the small cigar shop, which appears like an island within a stormy ocean, like the antipode to the bustle environment.

Sometimes some of the hurry enters the shop, but the clocks seem to tick differently there and at the end everything calms down. I like this movie.