Smoke (1995)
Overview
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.
Production Companies
Additional Info
| Budget | $7,000,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $8,349,430.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 2.0637 |
Directed By
Wayne Wang
Crew
Christopher Tellefsen
Maysie Hoy
Adam Holender
Hisami Kuroiwa
Rachel Portman
Peter Newman
Kenzo Horikoshi
Wayne Wang
Greg Johnson
Wayne Herndon
Heidi Levitt
William Breslo
Todd Pfeiffer
Paul Auster
Joel Barkow
Margot Lulick
Glen Bowen
Sam Burrell
Billy Hopkins
Claudia Brown
Chuck Keehne
Paul Auster
Patricia Regan
Jude Gorjanc
Jasmine Kosovic
Joseph Badalucco Jr.
Robert Barnett
Kim Orchen
David Marcellino
Vince Biscano
Charles Cecil
Rodney Clark
Timothy Main
Rhonda Moscoe
Rae Umsted
Lauren Doner
Loretta Farb
Magen Kauffman
Kenton Jakub
Michael Cambria
Cary Wong
Bill Lehne
W. Ernest Stalder
Marko Costanzo
Steven Visscher
Chuck Jeffreys
Collin Quinlan
Lorey Sebastian
Greg Babiuk
Andrew Dimeo
Chris Fielder
Donovan C. Howard
Douglas Crosby
Brad Goss
David Knox
Cheryl Kilbourne-Kimpton
Lynn Geller
Jonathan Sheffer
Ernie Gangloff
John Denison
Ann Edgeworth
Robert Hein
Frank Kern
K.C. Bailey
Harry Ford
Lys Hopper
James Flatto
Fred Rosenberg
Anthony Dimeo
Larry Steinberg
Jeffrey Stern
Robert Alonso
Peter Betulia
John Cambria
Thomas Landi
Alex Corven Caronia
John Moses
Claude Horstmann
Jean-Phillipe Preteur
Shanya Tsao
Chris Marzulli
Julie Lindner
Magdaline Volaitis
Blaise Corrigan
Philip Kennedy
Joan Winters
Mark Horstmann
Joyce Kubalak-Szuflita
Pam Shawshin
Mark Goodermote
Thomas Dolan
Andrew Gangloff
Brian Langman
James A. Dolan
George Lazaros
Kevin Donegan
Janene Higgins
Laura Iler
Elizabeth Linn
Mark Mann
John Merrick
Michael Barry
Drew Kunin
Richard Murphy
Bruce Pross
Gus Papadopoulos
John Fundus
Sylvia Menno
Nina Chien
Jennifer Roth
Emile Charlap
Brian Risner
David H. Kramer
Marcia Patten
Sara Corrigan
Tom Salvatore
Debra C. Victoroff
Rachel Portman
Kristen Kusama
Christopher Tellefsen
Avi Zev Weider
Billy Miller
Judie Fixler
Morgan Neville
Louis Volpe
Lauren Gale
Exile Ramirez
James W. Finnerty
Billy Miller Jr.
Randall Balsmeyer
Eileen Cabiling
James Cozza
Heidi Topper
Karen Kelsall
Lilene Mansell
Leo Hallal
Brunilda Torres
Liz Schenck
Steve Borne
Reid Rosefelt
Ralph Volpe
John Daschbach
Satoru Iseki
Karin Wiesel
Kalina Ivanov
Harvey Weinstein
Jeffrey D. McDonald
Shoko Kimizuka
Diana Phillips
Bob Weinstein
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
TOP CAST
Harvey Keitel
Augustus 'Auggie' Wren
William Hurt
Paul Benjamin
Stockard Channing
Ruby McNutt
Harold Perrineau
Thomas 'Rashid' Cole
Forest Whitaker
Cyrus Cole
Giancarlo Esposito
1st OTB Man / Tommy
José Zúñiga
2nd OTB Man / Jerry
Stephen Gevedon
OTB Man #3 / Dennis
Jared Harris
Jimmy Rose
Ashley Judd
Felicity
Victor Argo
Vinnie
Michelle Hurst
Aunt Em
Erica Gimpel
Doreen Cole
Deirdre O'Connell
Sue the Waitress
Malik Yoba
The Creeper
Murray Moston
Waiter
Mary B. Ward
April Lee the Bookstore Clerk
Daniel Auster
Book Thief
Vincenzo Amelia
Irate Customer
Gilson Reglas
Cyrus Jr.
Howie Rose
Baseball Announcer
Mel Gorham
Violet
Baxter Harris
Lawyer #1
Paul Geier
Lawyer #2
Walter T. Meade
Roger Goodwin
Clarice Taylor
Grandma Ethel
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