Blue in the Face

(1995)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 190 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1995

Runtime: 83 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Paul Auster, Ван Ин

Cast: Харви Кейтель, Mel Gorham, Виктор Арго, Roseanne Barr, Джанкарло Эспозито, Джаред Харрис, Хосе Суньига, Джим Джармуш, Лу Рид, Кит Дэвид

Plot

A wacky group of locals visit the neighborhood cigar shop, looking for good times and finding plenty of hilarious fun. But when the greedy owner threatens to close the shop for good and turn it into a trendy vegetarian restaurant, the neighborhood proves they'll do just about anything to save their favorite hangout.

Wayne Wang's follow-up movie to Smoke (1995) presents a series of improvisational situations strung together to form a pastiche of Brooklyn's diverse ethnicity, offbeat humor, and essential humanity. Many of the same characters inhabiting Auggie Wren's Brooklyn Cigar Store in Smoke (1995) return here to expound on their philosophy of smoking, relationships, baseball, New York City, and Belgian Waffles. Most of all, this is a movie about living life, off-the-cuff.