Holy Smoke! [French]

Starring: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Pam Grier, et al.

Kate Winslet (Revolutionary Road) and Harvey Keitel (The Irishman) star in this scintillating seductive, darkly hilarious motion picture. While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron (Winslet) falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters (Keitel), a macho cult deprogrammer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.

• Format: DVD
• Language: French
• UPC: 717951004796
• Release Date: March 2002
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Publisher: Miramax
• Director: Jane Campion
• Starring: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Pam Grier, Julie Hamilton, Sophie Lee, Daniel Wyllie, Paul Goddard, Tim Robertson, George Mangos, Kerry Walker
• Runtime: 1 hour, 54 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: closed-captioned
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Matt Lauer looks a lot better in drag than Harvey Keitel.

Ruth Barron (Kate Winslet) is traveling through India and looking at the sights. Circumstance has it that she encounters a guru with the ability to change her life. She decides to stay in India with her new life. Her girlfriend, traveling with her, is appalled and rushes home to tell Ruth’s parents what happened. The mother is convinced that her daughter has been brainwashed. So she lures her daughter back with a false statement that the father is dying. When Ruth gets home, she finds that they have hired a deprogrammer, P.J. Waters (Harvey Keitel), to correct the situation. Things do not quite go as planned, and we go along for the ride. This little ditty, written by Anna Campion and Jane Campion, is more like a story written by Steve Barry. It starts very logical and very serious; slowly but surely, it becomes more farcical until it reaches a hilarious off-the-charts situation. Yes, I know that this is a formula, yet it is fun to watch it play out.