Film

Smoke 1995

Directed by Wayne Wang

  • Comedy, Drama
  • 112 min
  • R

The most precious things are lighter than air.

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.

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Contemplative, contemporary, earnest and prestige.

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  • contemporarynostalgic
  • earnestironic
  • unpretentiousprestige
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