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Release Date
• USA: Oct 13, 1995
DVD Release Date
• R2: 19 Jul 2004
Budget $2,000,000
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 23 minutes
Country USA
Studio Blue In The Face Production, Euro Space, Interal Production, Miramax, NDF, Peter Newman
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Other Titles
• Blue in the Face
• Brooklyn Boogie (1996)
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Genre: Comedy, Urban, Culture Clash, Infidelity
Tagline: Welcome to the planet Brooklyn.
Plot: Toward the end of shooting SMOKE, director Wayne Wang, screenwriter Paul Auster, and, seemingly, the entire crew were having such a good time that they approached producers Harvey and Bob Weinstein for more money to continue shooting the mostly improvised BLUE IN THE FACE. Not all the actors could return to Auggie Wren's cigar shop, but they were replaced by some well-known stars making cameo appearances. Lily Tomlin plays a strange man in search of Belgian waffles, Michael J. Fox appears as an equally odd man conducting a bizarre survey, Madonna delivers a singing telegram, and Roseanne does a dramatic scene as the wife of the shop’s owner. What plot there is concerns the owner’s desire to close the cigar store and rent the space to a vegetarian restaurant. In a documentary style, there are interviews with Brooklyn residents, archival footage of the demolition of Ebbets Field, and other attempts to show the look and feel of life in Brooklyn. In spite of the star appearances, it's the nonactors who provide much of the genuine warmth and easy improvisation as thinly veiled characters. A man with unusual glasses (musician Lou Reed), looking right into the camera, explains why he loves Brooklyn and feels nervous in Stockholm. Bob (filmmaker Jim Jarmusch) comes in to smoke his last
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 | Michael J. Fox
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 | Lily Tomlin
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 | Jared Harris
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John Lurie
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