This movie, as before known, was made on the excess of Wayne Wang's ensemble dramedy "Smoke". Gathered among is a collection of actors improvising a collection of scenes that all have their own cinematic worth.
Some of them are truly great (the plastic bag monologue is one of the great film monologues of the 90s), some are less than great (Madonna as a singing telegramist: wow!), but they all are unique in their own, esoteric-vision-of-Brooklyn kind of way.
Whatever flimsy plot Wang strung together concerns the apparent Last Days of Auggie Wren's cigar shop, set to be closed and re-done by the highest bidder. And through that, we see characters of all kinds wander in, improv a scene, and wander out. Kind of like a 24-hour acting class for working actors.
Rent this if you're an actor looking for a good scene to do.
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Some of them are truly great (the plastic bag monologue is one of the great film monologues of the 90s), some are less than great (Madonna as a singing telegramist: wow!), but they all are unique in their own, esoteric-vision-of-Brooklyn kind of way.
Whatever flimsy plot Wang strung together concerns the apparent Last Days of Auggie Wren's cigar shop, set to be closed and re-done by the highest bidder. And through that, we see characters of all kinds wander in, improv a scene, and wander out. Kind of like a 24-hour acting class for working actors.
Rent this if you're an actor looking for a good scene to do.
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