Directed by Wayne Wang • 1995 • United States
Starring Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Stockard Channing
Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel) is the owner of the Brooklyn Cigar Company, a store that he considers the center of the world—a place where all of humanity eventually parades through. Among those in his orbit are a writer (William Hurt) who can’t write, a reluctant father (Forest Whitaker) hiding from his past, a streetwise teen (Harold Perrineau) with an unusual identity crisis, and Auggie’s long-lost ex-girlfriend (Stockard Channing), who returns with some surprising news. A top-flight ensemble cast, literate script by Paul Auster, and evocative direction from Wayne Wang come together to produce a rich, novelistic tapestry of everyday human experience.
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