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Feb 11, 2000 · 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. And the deprogrammer is Harvey Keitel, summoned by Ruth's ...
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 .
- $3.6 million
- Angelo Badalamenti
Dec 26, 1999 · Holy Smoke: Directed by Jane Campion. 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.
- (15K)
- Comedy, Drama
- Jane Campion
- 2000-02-18
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Holy Smoke! 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. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters (Keitel), a macho American cult ...
Permalink. 5/10. Interesting idea, flawed execution. bat-5 25 January 2000. Holy Smoke has two good performances from Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel. It also has some nice cinematography and some interesting visual tricks, but apart from that, the film is kind of a mixed bag.
The underpinnings of "Holy Smoke" can be found in a none too readable current novel by the Campion sisters, which does not benefit from any such directorial magic. Nor is the book graced by Pam Grier in a tiny but piquant role, the zany crowd that constitutes Ruth's extended family or the kewpie-doll sister-in-law (Sophie Lee) who finds Keitel ...
Holy Smoke is a film directed by Jane Campion with Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton, Sophie Lee .... Year: 1999. Original title: Holy Smoke. Synopsis: While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru.
