Smoke (1995)

There are lots of stories in Smoke. There's the widower author who hasn't managed to put out a book since his wife died. There's the young kid hiding out from thugs and longing to find his estranged father. There's the smoke shop owner on the brink of the payout for a big deal on Cubans. And there's the woman beat up by life who is trying to save her daughter from crack addiction. Only tangentially related by the smoke shop, the stories swirl and linger and dissipate in the same way smoke does. Just settle back and breathe it in.

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