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Smoke
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
Full Credits
  • Director:
    Wayne Wong, Wayne Wang, Paul Auster,
  • Writer:
    Paul Auster,
  • Producer:
    Greg Johnson, Peter Newman, Hisami Kuroiwa, Kenzo Horikoshi, Peter Newman, Greg Johnson,
  • Cinematographer:
    Adam Holender,
  • Editor:
    Christopher Tellefsen, Maysie Hoy,
  • Executive Producer:
    Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Satoru Iseki,
  • Cast:
    Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channing, Giancarlo Esposito, William Hurt, Harold Perineau, Jr., José Zúñiga, Forest Whitaker, Stephen Gevedon, Harold Perrineau,
  • Associate Producer:
    Shoko Kimizuka,
  • Assistant Editor:
    Morgan Neville,
  • First Assistant Director:
    Todd Pfeiffer,
  • Second Assistant Director:
    Jude Gorjanc,
  • Line Producer:
    Diana Phillips,
  • Supervising Sound Editor:
    Robert Hein,
  • Sound:
    Drew Kunin,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Karen Kelsall,
  • Art Department Coordinator:
    Loretta Farb,
  • Assistant Production Coordinator:
    John Daschbach,
  • Boom Operator:
    Mark Goodermote, John Fundus,
  • Colorist:
    Leo Hallal, Greg Babiuk,
  • Construction Coordinator:
    Rhonda Moscoe, Bill Lehne,
  • First Assistant Camera:
    John Cambria,
  • Location Manager:
    Lys Hopper,
  • Production Coordinator:
    Jennifer Roth,
  • Property Master:
    Ann Edgeworth,
  • Set Dresser:
    Joseph Badalucco Jr., Andrew Dimeo, Anthony Dimeo,
  • Sound Effects Editor:
    Magdaline Volaitis,
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
    Michael Barry,
  • Title Designer:
    Randall Balsmeyer,
  • Art Department Trainee:
    Rae Umsted, William Breslo, Pam Shawshin, Jean-Phillipe Preteur, Shanya Tsao,
  • Still Photographer:
    K.C. Bailey, Lorey Sebastian,
  • Color Timer:
    Tom Salvatore,
  • First Assistant Editor:
    Liz Schenck, James Cozza, Sara Corrigan, Debra C. Victoroff,
  • Key Construction Grip:
    John Merrick,
  • Best Boy Electric:
    Thomas Dolan,
  • Post Production Assistant:
    Kristen Kusama, Avi Zev Weider,
  • Foley Editor:
    Frank Kern, Steven Visscher,
  • Second Assistant Camera:
    Michael Cambria,
  • Stunts:
    Chuck Jeffreys, Douglas Crosby,
  • Construction Grip:
    Glen Bowen, Sam Burrell, Vince Biscano, Chris Marzulli, Larry Steinberg,
  • Foley Artist:
    Marko Costanzo,
  • Costume Assistant:
    John Denison,
  • Assistant Director:
    David Marcellino,
  • Dialogue Editor:
    Sylvia Menno, Jeffrey Stern, Kenton Jakub, Fred Rosenberg,
  • Dolly Grip:
    James W. Finnerty,
  • Music Consultant:
    Lynn Geller,
  • Casting:
    Billy Hopkins, Kim Orchen, Heidi Levitt,
  • Production Design:
    Kalina Ivanov,
  • A Camera Operator:
    David Knox,
  • Set Decoration:
    Karin Wiesel,
  • Assistant Location Manager:
    Heidi Topper,
  • Costume Design:
    Claudia Brown, Chuck Keehne,
  • Post Production Supervisor:
    Jasmine Kosovic,
  • Production Secretary:
    Exile Ramirez,
  • Transportation Coordinator:
    Ralph Volpe, Louis Volpe,
  • Set Production Assistant:
    Eileen Cabiling,
  • Extras Casting:
    Cary Wong, Judie Fixler,
  • Unit Publicist:
    Reid Rosefelt,
  • On Set Dresser:
    Joel Barkow,
  • Graphic Designer:
    Janene Higgins, Joan Winters,
  • Foley Supervisor:
    Bruce Pross,
  • Assistant Property Master:
    Laura Iler,
  • Makeup Artist:
    Patricia Regan,
  • Grip:
    Billy Miller, Harry Ford,
  • Orchestrator:
    Emile Charlap, Rachel Portman,
  • Music Editor:
    Steve Borne, James Flatto, Brunilda Torres,
  • Location Production Assistant:
    George Lazaros, Alex Corven Caronia,
  • Co-Director:
    Paul Auster,
  • Gaffer:
    James A. Dolan,
  • ADR Voice Casting:
    David H. Kramer,
  • Unit Production Manager:
    Margot Lulick,
  • Assistant Sound Editor:
    Donovan C. Howard, Chris Fielder, Brian Langman,
  • Carpenter:
    W. Ernest Stalder, Mark Mann, Andrew Gangloff, Rodney Clark, Claude Horstmann, Ernie Gangloff, Charles Cecil, Timothy Main,
  • Electrician:
    Thomas Landi, Collin Quinlan,
  • First Assistant Sound Editor:
    Julie Lindner,
  • Original Music Composer:
    Rachel Portman,
  • Scenic Artist:
    Joyce Kubalak-Szuflita, Philip Kennedy, Robert Barnett, Lauren Doner,
  • Craft Service:
    Lauren Gale,
  • Additional Editor:
    Christopher Tellefsen,
  • Scoring Mixer:
    Brian Risner,
  • Charge Scenic Artist:
    Elizabeth Linn,
  • Stunt Coordinator:
    Blaise Corrigan,
  • Key Carpenter:
    Mark Horstmann,
  • Art Department Assistant:
    Magen Kauffman,
  • Post Production Scripts:
    Kevin Donegan,
  • Wardrobe Supervisor:
    Cheryl Kilbourne-Kimpton, Marcia Patten,
  • Key Set Production Assistant:
    Nina Chien,
  • Art Direction:
    Jeffrey D. McDonald,
  • Best Boy Grip:
    Peter Betulia, Billy Miller Jr.,
  • Prosthetics:
    Robert Alonso,
  • Cableman:
    Richard Murphy,
  • Conductor:
    Jonathan Sheffer,
  • Musician:
    John Moses,
  • Dialect Coach:
    Lilene Mansell,
  • Hairstylist:
    Wayne Herndon,
  • Leadman:
    Gus Papadopoulos,
  • Key Grip:
    Brad Goss,

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