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Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "Holy Smoke" begins as a movie about the deprogramming of a cult member and ends with the deprogramming of the deprogrammer. It's not even a close call. The cult member is Ruth ( Kate Winslet ), an Australian who has gone to India and allied herself with a guru.
Holy Smoke! is a 1999 independent romantic comedy-drama film directed by Jane Campion, and starring Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel. Its plot follows an American exit counselor (Keitel) who attempts to deprogram a young Australian woman (Winslet) who has been indoctrinated into a new age cult in India.
A 1999 comedy-drama film directed by Jane Campion, starring Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel. While on a spiritual journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Australian Ruth Barron (Winslet) falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru.
Dec 26, 1999 · With Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton, Sophie Lee. Ruth's been brainwashed by a guru in Delhi, India. Her parents in Sydney hire a specialist in reversing this. Ruth is tricked to return to Australia and is isolated in an outback cabin with the specialist. It gets messy.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Jane Campion
- 1999-12-26
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203 Reviews. Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 7/10. "Where there's fire, there's smoke" danielll_rs 25 June 2000. Bizarre. Fascinating. Flawed. Out of control. Definitely not ordinary. I can use all those expressions to show what I feel about "Holy Smoke", but I think they are not enough to express all my mixed feelings about it.
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