Smoke

Smoke, released under the title Cigars in Latin America, is a 1995 American film directed by Wayne Wang. The writer Paul Auster, author of the script, was also co-director (although it is not stated as such in the credits).

The film had a sequel titled Blue in the Face, following some of the characters from the first and introducing some new ones.

Plot

The stories of a handful of solitary characters whose lives seem marked by chance unfold around a tobacconist: the writer Paul Benjamin (William Hurt), who tries to rebuild his life after the death of his wife because of a stray bullet in a robbery; the young Rashid Cole (Harold Perrineau), who tries to find his father, who abandoned him when he was just a child; Cyrus Cole (Forest Whitaker), who experiences the amputation of his left arm as a divine punishment; or shop assistant Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel), who keeps some secrets in his past that he's not entirely proud of.

Cast

• William Hurt as Paul Benjamin
• Harvey Keitel as Augustus "Auggie" Wren
• Forest Whitaker as Cyrus Cole
• Victor Argo as Vinnie
• Stockard Channing as Ruby McNutt
• Ashley Judd as Felicity
• Giancarlo Esposito like Tommy Finelli, OTB Man #1
• Jose Zuñiga like Jerry, OTB Man #2
• Jared Harris like Jimmy Rose
• Daniel Auster as Ladrón de Libros
• Harold Perrineau as Thomas "Rashid" Cole (like Harold Perrineau Jr.)
• Deirdre O'Connell as Sue, the waitress
• Michelle Hurst as Aunt Em
• Erica Gimpel like Doreen Cole
• Malik Yoba like The Creeper
• Mary B. Ward as April Lee
• Clarice Taylor as Grandma Ethel

Awards