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06/24/06
Holy Smoke! (1999)
43 %
Reviews Counted: 72 Fresh: 31 Rotten:41 Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus:
Superb performances hindered by weak script and incoherent story.
Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins
Synopsis: In this wildly inventive film from director Jane Campion (THE PIANO), Kate Winslet stars as Ruth, a headstrong Australian woman determined to get back to India in time to join a group marriage to her guru. Her family, hoping to break the cult leader's psychic grip on Ruth, hires P.J. (Harvey... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Sophie Lee, Tim Robertson, Pam Grier
Director: Jane Campion
Screenwriter: Anna Campion, Jane Campion
Producer: Jan Chapman
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
Screenwriter: Anna Campion, Jane Campion
Producer: Jan Chapman
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
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12/12/02
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12/10/01
It is an immense, emotional, engrossing film that nevertheless wears its brilliance casually.
04/17/01
Here is a movie that promises to be a drama about two passionate people waging intellectual war on each other, but disintegrates into a bizarre mixture of Ticket to Heaven, Last Tango in Paris, Klute and Coneheads.
01/01/00
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06/17/08
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Jane Campion is busily dismantling gender myths that few people take seriously any more.
09/17/07
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04/27/07
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07/21/05
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03/03/05
It's too bad that such an artist of such obvious ambition and power seems inclined to dismiss the greater part of humanity...
01/27/05
Filmmaker Jane Campion has displayed genius, passion, insight, and self-indulgence in her work. Now, she reveals a sense of humor.
12/08/02
At once hilarious and serious, cruel and tender, and bristling with vitality, Holy Smoke is the right movie for the millennium, envisioning new possibilities in the way people view and relate to one another.
08/15/02
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A funny, insightful film whose feminist undertones don't overwhelm the story and characters.
04/03/02
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2 great actors,a great director,a very smart script
by: Sam 11/27/00
by: Sam 11/27/00
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