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  • Starring: Harvey Keitel, William Hurt
  • Summary: A group of people's lives intertwine when a New York cigar store manager, Auggie (Keitel), befriends them. Among them is a writer who can't write (Hurt), a reluctant father hiding from his past (Whitaker), a streetwise teen with an unusual identity crisis, and Auggie's long-lost ex-girlfriend (Channing), who returns with some surprising news! (Miramax)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 14 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    100
    A sharply observant and witty film that plumbs unexpected depths of feeling.
  2. ReelViews
    Reviewed by: James Berardinelli
    88
    Each conversation has at least one memorable line, and it's always delivered in such a casual manner that it blends right in.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    30
    Despite a certain grace in the dialogue and casual plot construction, this is positively reeking of a desire to be cheerful in the face of adversity.

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  1. TimB.
    8
    An overall wonderful story line, that inspires the best of a person. The story does have its dull moments, and does leave for individual conclusions to be made in the end. Secrets and smoke hang over the characters, but end the end, the smoke seems to clear, revealing a nicely worked story line between the characters.… Expand
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