BLUE IN THE FACE

Production - Cast - Soundtrack - Release - Synopsis - Rating - Awards - Pictures


Blue In The Face



Production

Directed by: Paul Auster & Wayne Wang
Written by: Paul Auster & Wayne Wang
Produced by: Francey Grace, Greg Johnson, Harvey Keitel, Hisami Kuroiwa, Peter Newman, Diana Phillips, Bob Weinstein & Harvey Weinstein
Production company: Miramax Films
Location: NY
Date of filming: July 1994
Budget: $ 2 million

Cast

Lou Reed
Michael J. Fox
Roseanne
Mel Gorham
Jim Jarmusch
Lily Tomlin
Jared Harris
Giancarlo Esposito
Malik Yoba
José Zúñiga
Victor Argo
Stephen Gevedon
Madonna
Sharif Rashed
Mira Sorvino
Keith David
Peggy Gormley
Harvey Keitel
Man with Strange Glasses
Pete Maloney
Vinnie's Wife
Violetta
Bob
The waffle eater
Jimmy Rose
Tommy Finelli
The Watch Man
Jerry
Vinnie
Dennis
Singing Telegram
Purse Snatcher
The young lady
Jackie Robinson
Waitress
Auggie Wren

Soundtrack

Original Music by: John Lurie, Billy Martin & Calvin Weston
The soundtrack doesn't contain any songs by Madonna. Mel Gorham does a rendition of Fever which was also covered by Madonna a few years earlier.

Release

Blue In The Face - click to enlarge Released as: Blue In The Face
Released in theatres: Oct. 13th, 1995 (US)
Released on DVD: March 4th, 1999 (Europe) / May 25th 2003 (US)
Runtime: 80 minutes
Genre: Comedy
MPAA rating: R
Box office: $ 1.3 million (US)

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.

Rating

Blue In The Face does not have a proper plot, it's just some comic situations set in the diverse Brooklyn, in and around of Auggie's cigar shop. Whereas Smoke had a real story, Blue in The Face focuses on silly stuff about the everyday life in Brooklyn, the different ethnics and Belgian waffles. Madonna's brief cameo as a Western Union telegram girl towards the end of the movie is a nice addition, she delivers her message as a hot performance!
5,5/10

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Awards

  • 1995 Stockholm Film Festival: nomination for Bronze Horse
  • 1996 American Comedy Awards: nomination for 'Funniest Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture' (Lily Tomlin)

Pictures

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