Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Lou Reed | ... | Man with Strange Glasses | |
Michael J. Fox | ... | Pete Maloney | |
Roseanne Barr | ... | Dot (as Roseanne) | |
Mel Gorham | ... | Violet | |
Jim Jarmusch | ... | Bob | |
Lily Tomlin | ... | Waffle Eater | |
Jared Harris | ... | Jimmy Rose | |
Giancarlo Esposito | ... | Tommy Finelli | |
Malik Yoba | ... | Watch Man | |
José Zúñiga | ... | Jerry (as Jose Zuniga) | |
Victor Argo | ... | Vinnie | |
Stephen Gevedon | ... | Dennis | |
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The John Lurie National Orchestra | ... | Street Band |
Madonna | ... | Singing Telegram | |
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Sharif Rashed | ... | Purse Snatcher |
Wayne Wang's follow-up movie to Smoke (1995) 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 (1995) return here to expound on their philosophy of smoking, relationships, baseball, New York City, and Belgian Waffles. Most of all, this is a movie about living life, off-the-cuff. Written by Tad Dibbern <DIBBERN_D@a1.mscf.upenn.edu>
This is a light and fun - although intelligent - movie, worth seeing, if not for the whole marvellous opus of pop culture, for his cast alone: Harvey Keitel, Roseanne, Victor Argo and precious appearances of Lou Reed, Jim Jarmusch (as Bob, in my favorite sequence of the movie), John Lurie and Madonna, to name a few. Soundtrack by David Byrne only adds to the mix.
´Blue in the Face´ cynically, cleverly and ironically chronicles the life and the history of Brooklyn, NY. Watch it, it´s independent cinema at its best.