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Release Date
• USA: Dec 3, 1999
• UK: 31 Mar 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 24, 2003
• R2: 1 May 2002
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong sexuality and language.
Running Time
1 hour, 55 minutes
Country USA, Australia
Studio Miramax
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Other Titles
• Holy Smoke
• Holy Smoke! (1999)
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Genre: Drama, Comedy, Satire, Love, Gay/Lesbian, Erotic, Psychodrama, Religion
Tagline: He had only one thing on his mind... but so did she!
Plot: 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 Keitel), a macho American deprogramming expert teetering on the brink of a nervous breakdown. A no-holds-barred battle of the psyches, cultures, and sexes ensues as P.J. and Ruth fight, connive, and eventually fall into bed together in what becomes a mutual search for individual truth. The strong performances of the two stars, a hilariously offbeat script (cowritten by Campion and her sister, Anna), and a wealth of delicious, texture-enhancing flourishes (including some surreal bits of computer animation, Pam Grier's work in a small role as P.J.'s partner, and a wild opening sequence set to Neil Diamond's "Holly Holy") combine to make HOLY SMOKE! a weird, winning blend of goofy comedy and hallucinatory mysticism.
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Kate Winslet
Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland |
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Jackie Brown, Mars Attacks!, Ghosts of Mars |
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The Matrix, Babe, Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars | |
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