1995 · drama · comedy
Smoke (1995)
Directed by Wayne Wang1h 52m1995
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.
Our read: Smoke (1995) (1995) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- intimate
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