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 | 2.2372 |
Directed By
Wayne Wang
Crew
Wayne Wang
Kenzo Horikoshi
Hisami Kuroiwa
Peter Newman
Rachel Portman
Adam Holender
Maysie Hoy
Christopher Tellefsen
Greg Johnson
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
Billy Hopkins
Heidi Levitt
Kim Orchen
Claudia Brown
Chuck Keehne
Wayne Herndon
Patricia Regan
Jasmine Kosovic
Margot Lulick
Jude Gorjanc
David Marcellino
Todd Pfeiffer
Joseph Badalucco Jr.
Joel Barkow
Robert Barnett
Vince Biscano
Glen Bowen
William Breslo
Sam Burrell
Charles Cecil
Rodney Clark
Andrew Dimeo
Anthony Dimeo
Lauren Doner
Ann Edgeworth
Loretta Farb
Andrew Gangloff
Ernie Gangloff
Janene Higgins
Claude Horstmann
Mark Horstmann
Laura Iler
Magen Kauffman
Philip Kennedy
Joyce Kubalak-Szuflita
Bill Lehne
Elizabeth Linn
Timothy Main
Mark Mann
Chris Marzulli
John Merrick
Rhonda Moscoe
Gus Papadopoulos
Jean-Phillipe Preteur
Pam Shawshin
W. Ernest Stalder
Larry Steinberg
Shanya Tsao
Rae Umsted
Joan Winters
Michael Barry
Marko Costanzo
Chris Fielder
John Fundus
Mark Goodermote
Robert Hein
Donovan C. Howard
Kenton Jakub
Frank Kern
Drew Kunin
Brian Langman
Julie Lindner
Sylvia Menno
Richard Murphy
Bruce Pross
Fred Rosenberg
Jeffrey Stern
Steven Visscher
Magdaline Volaitis
Robert Alonso
Blaise Corrigan
Douglas Crosby
Chuck Jeffreys
K.C. Bailey
Peter Betulia
John Cambria
Michael Cambria
James A. Dolan
Thomas Dolan
James W. Finnerty
Harry Ford
Brad Goss
David Knox
Thomas Landi
Billy Miller Jr.
Billy Miller
Collin Quinlan
Lorey Sebastian
Judie Fixler
David H. Kramer
Cary Wong
John Denison
Cheryl Kilbourne-Kimpton
Marcia Patten
Greg Babiuk
Sara Corrigan
James Cozza
Leo Hallal
Kristen Kusama
Morgan Neville
Tom Salvatore
Liz Schenck
Christopher Tellefsen
Debra C. Victoroff
Avi Zev Weider
Alex Corven Caronia
Lys Hopper
George Lazaros
Heidi Topper
Steve Borne
Emile Charlap
James Flatto
Lynn Geller
Rachel Portman
Brian Risner
Jonathan Sheffer
Brunilda Torres
John Moses
Kevin Donegan
Karen Kelsall
Louis Volpe
Ralph Volpe
Randall Balsmeyer
Eileen Cabiling
Nina Chien
John Daschbach
Lauren Gale
Lilene Mansell
Exile Ramirez
Reid Rosefelt
Jennifer Roth
Satoru Iseki
Shoko Kimizuka
Diana Phillips
Bob Weinstein
Harvey Weinstein
Kalina Ivanov
Jeffrey D. McDonald
Karin Wiesel
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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