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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
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 15
  3. Negative: 1 out of 15
  1. 100
    A sharply observant and witty film that plumbs unexpected depths of feeling.
  2. Knockout ensemble performances like these don't come around all that often, though, and when they do they ought to be savored.
  3. 75
    A beguiling film about words, secrets and tobacco.
  4. 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