Holy Smoke!

In this wildly inventive film from director Jane Campion (THE PIANO), Kate Winslet stars as Ruth, a headstrong Australian woman determined to get back to India in time to join a group marriage to her guru. Her family, hoping to break the cult leader's psychic grip on Ruth, hires P.J. (Harvey Keitel), a macho American deprogramming expert teetering on the brink of a nervous breakdown. A no-holds-barred battle of the psyches, cultures, and sexes ensues as P.J. and Ruth fight, connive, and eventually fall into bed together in what becomes a mutual search for individual truth. The strong performances of the two stars, a hilariously offbeat script (cowritten by Campion and her sister, Anna), and a wealth of delicious, texture-enhancing flourishes (including some surreal bits of computer animation, Pam Grier's work in a small role as P.J.'s partner, and a wild opening sequence set to Neil Diamond's "Holly Holy") combine to make HOLY SMOKE! a weird, winning blend of goofy comedy and hallucinatory mysticism.

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"...Original in every sense....[Viewers] will embrace its thematic and stylistic complexity..." -- David Rooney , (Variety)

"...A loopy contemporary comedy....Winslet gives a particularly bold, uninhibited and magnetic performance..." -- Stephen Farber , (Movieline's Hollywood Life)

"...Winslet is the rare actress who can rage at the heavens and reach for them at the same time....[HOLY SMOKE! Is] a knockabout fusion..." -- Rating: B -- Owen Gleiberman , (Entertainment Weekly)

"...Provocative, frequently hilarious....[Winslet and Keitel] stray into territory that lesser (and less courageous) actors would avoid..." -- 4 out of 5 stars -- Chris Cronis , (Premiere)

"...A high-risk, darkly comic triumph....[The] film traverses a tremendous range of emotional terrain....At once hilarious and serious, cruel and tender, and bristling with vitality, HOLY SMOKE is the right movie for the millennium..." -- Kevin Thomas , (Los Angeles Times)

"...Winslet and Keitel are both interesting in the film..." -- Roger Ebert , (Chicago Sun-Times)

"...The real story in this underrated original is Keitel's co-star, Kate Winslet. Sexy, snotty, vulnerable, and, above all, contentious, her character is the catalyst..." -- Mike Clark , (USA Today)

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