Smoke (1995)
Kernel Score: 81% · 518 ratings
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Released: 1995-06-09
Runtime: 112 minutes
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.
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Cast
- Harvey Keitel as Augustus 'Auggie' Wren
- William Hurt as Paul Benjamin
- Stockard Channing as Ruby McNutt
- Harold Perrineau as Thomas 'Rashid' Cole
- Forest Whitaker as Cyrus Cole
- Giancarlo Esposito as 1st OTB Man / Tommy
- José Zúñiga as 2nd OTB Man / Jerry
- Stephen Gevedon as OTB Man #3 / Dennis
- Jared Harris as Jimmy Rose
- Ashley Judd as Felicity