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Synopsis: Wayne Wang's follow-up movie to Smoke presents a series of improvisational situations strung together to form a pastiche of Brooklyn's diverse ethnicity, offbeat humor, and essential humanity. Many of the same characters inhabiting Auggie Wren's Brooklyn Cigar Store in Smoke return here to expound on their philosophy of smoking, relationships, baseball, New York, and Belgian Waffles. Most of all, this is a movie about living life, off-the-cuff.
Genre: Comedy
Production: Miramax
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
43%
R
Year:
1995
83 min
369 Views


7:
00 you're out there with the tickets.

- That's a schedule?

- It's a schedule. It's a job.

- It's where I have to be. It's something she understands.

- And what is this?

What are you doin' even like deciding

wh-what she needs to think, what l...

Wh-What are you gettin'

in my sh*t for?

I don't give a sh*t

what you do with your life.

- Do what you like. But leave my sister...

- Then shut up about it.

- In one piece.

- Then shut up about it! Why you come in here...

- These... This place... Don't touch me.

- I don't like to see my sister...

How 'bout you don't touch me at all, okay?

Keep your greasy diner f***in' fingers off me.

- What?

- You know, I had...

- Where do you come off?

- I spent a year listening to Phil, my good friend...

You know Phil. I spent a f***in' year

listening to him b*tch about you.

A year! And now you're gonna tell me

how to run my relationship?

- You're gonna tell me what I should do to my girlfriend, or shouldn't do?

- I'm asking...

I believe you come... Y-Y-You... Phil left you.

I think that was the case, right?

- A-Am I mistaken about that?

- I don't think that was the sequence of events.

I think he left... Well, no.

What was, then? What, you left him?

No, I don't think so.

I don't think so! No. He left you.

- You know why he left her? Frigid. Frigid.

- I'm glad you're an ex...

That's why. Frigid.

Nothin'. Nothin'! Nothin'! Nothin'!

- F*** you!

- Ice b*tch. Ice b*tch.

F*** you, you bastard!

I taught him handball, and he's my best

opponent because the score's always tied.

We don't fight at home

because we fight on the court.

I'm talkin' about drop-dead fights.

I won't give.

I'll die. I'll fall down on that court

before I give him a point.

And then he tries

to harass me on, you know.

He said, "Oh! Now," he said,

"I'm gonna get serious."

And every time he does that,

I kick his butt.

What the f*** you come in here

doin' this sh*t for?

These are my friends. You're telling

him how to run his business!

These are my friends. What the hell

you comin' in here tellin' my friends...

- Dennis, come on.

- No! F*** you. F*** you!

- All right, I'll just go out.

- Just forget about it.

- What we... What were you yelling about?

- Is that what this is about?

- You guys sit around here and talk all day this trash?

- Nah. No.

I'm sorry. I started it.

Believe me, I know I started it.

- Nobody talks about you.

- Hmm.

Wh-What were you

yelling about?

- Things we shouldn't've been yelling about.

- You want a hug?

- Yeah.

- Yeah?

Get right in there, Jimmy.

- Do you feel better?

- Yeah, a lot better.

- You're not rigid anymore?

- No, no. Not rigid.

I get rigid sometimes.

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Paul Auster

Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947) is an American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), and The Brooklyn Follies (2005). His books have been translated into more than forty languages. more…

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