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Plot: A Brooklyn smoke shop is the center of neighborhood activity, and the stories of its customers.
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Recent Reviews
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MCT:November 18, 2008Paul Auster's well-crafted screenplay centers around a Brooklyn cigar shop, in which its owner, Auggie Wren, encounters just about every colorful character under the sun: the washed up writer, Paul Benjamin, a young teen who may or may not make it to his seventeenth birthday, Rasheed, and Ruby McNutt, Auggie's old flame who has quite a secret to share. The highlights of the film include wonderful performances from a stellar, near perfect ensemble cast: Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Stockard Channing, Harold Perrineau, and Forest Whitaker. How could you go wrong? Well, you can't when you've got Auster's witty script and Wayne Wang's subtle direction. The movie is undoubtedly funny, but it has moments of true humanity in its finest form. You simply want to know these people. They may be dysfunctional, but aren't we all just a little bit screwed up? Another great moment from the film (without giving too much away) is Auggie's Christmas story... perhaps the best ever told and with Tom Waits "Innocent When You Dream" playing underneath, no less.
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MCT:August 26, 2008
Senza dubbio un film riuscito. Alcuni momenti di gran cinema come il monologo finale di Keitel, davvero super.
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MCT:July 30, 2008
Great script, amazing performances. Beautiful and poignant moments. Cliche's arent bad cus they are un-true, they are bad because they are overbeaten paths to the truth. Love IS blind, but everyone's heard that so much it's lost it's meaning.
Lik...(read more) e Harvey Kietal's character who takes photographs of the same block every mourning, as part of his lifes work, this film is familair, but each moment is different and full of it's own little details.
It's a very dialogue driven film, lots of stories, anecdotes, and minituia throughout, everyone sounds natural and all of the actors are at the top of their game.
It's easy to overlook, the little details, here which make this film much more than typical New York dramedy, but they are there, author and screen-writer Paul Auster, has an eye for detail, and for taking the stuff of melodrama and rendering it familiar yet different. If you don't catch it the first time, "slow down", and try again. -
MCT:July 17, 2008this has to be one of my favourite movies, from start to finish there is not a second wasted and with actors like harvey kitle william hurt and forest witaker involved you know your watching something special
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MCT:July 15, 2008
A few very good stories with interesting characters, and Forest Whitaker and Harvey Heitel are 2 of the best.
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cheezGirlposted 286 days ago -
worst. poster. ever.
makes it look like one of those zany romantic comedies that hugh grant would act in. but its not, and its good.posted 430 days ago
