The Smokers

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Disillusioned, disenfranchised and just completely dissed, three girlfriends take revenge on all those guys who did them wrong in this outrageously wry and award-winning* tale. Featuring the hot new talents of Dominique Swain (Lolita), Busy Philipps ( Dawson's Creek ) and Keri Lynn Pratt (America's Sweethearts), The Smokers pushes every boundary and breaks every rule with an unflinching look at the gender war as played out behind the ivy-covered walls of an American privateschool. Tired of being used and abused by the opposite sex, Jefferson (Swain), Karen (Philipps) and Lisa (Pratt) decide to turn the tables on the guys who cross them by teaching them a sex-ed lessonthey'll never forget! But their little scheme backfires when their secret gets outmaking them the attraction of every guy on campus! And when one of the school's jocks goes too far, he sets into motion a chain of events that could change all their lives forever! *Audience Award2000 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival

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Why all these bad reviews?.......2007-06-29

I can't believe everyone is so critical against this movie. It could be an age difference. First of all, Dominique Swain is one of the most talented yet unnoticed actress. Thora Birch had a small part which was cute and funny.
And what high school movie do guys not want to have sex? It would be weird if they didn't. Sure what the girls planned was outrageous and not meant to be literally done but it brings up a very good point of how guys get away with saying and doing anything to girls and we're supposed to sit back and watch it happen. I found this movie to be good, funny and refreshingly different than most high school movies. If someone who hasn't seen the movie is reading this, it's definitely worth it..some of the drama parts will shock you...but the funny shocking parts will make you think and wonder what parts of life you're missing.

A Dog With Fleas.......2005-09-16

So these three girls are outcasts, because they smoke but mostly because they are infantile. There's Karen (Freaks & Geek's/Dawson's Creek's Busy Phillips), a scholarship girl who is as irritating but not quite as sexy as Shelley Winters in "The Poseidon Adventure", and Lisa (Keri Lynn Pratt who was Miss New Hampshire a couple years earlier), and Jefferson (Ms. Swain-everyone's favorite "Lolita"). So guess who the writer/director uses for her most erotic shots? That's right Phillips the screaming buffalo. And they wonder why these things lose money.

My guess is a no-talent and soon to be pornmaker woman happened to see a 1968 movie called "Three In the Attic" (which has never been released on video) and thought that she could get away with stealing the story. So she began to remake the film without buying the rights or acknowledging that it was a remake. Her boyfriend, who financed it so he could co-star and drool on "Lolita", panicked and ordered her to make last minute script changes to avoid a lawsuit. At least this would account for the totally nonsensical storyline.

One easy and generally reliable way to avoid dogmeat stuff like this is to check out the industry experience of whoever is credited with art direction and production design. If it is their first credit you know the picture will be horrible.

Watch this only if you are absolutely determined to see everything Thora Birch has done. She made this between "American Beauty" (before its release) and "Ghost World". Although I am sure that she would like it off her resume she actually does a good job in a small role. You recognize her voice more than her face and it takes a while because you are struggling internally with disbelief, like if Emma Thompson had made an appearance in "The New Guy".

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.

The director is now making porn.......2005-04-07

This is an absolutely terrible film. So bad is this film, that the director herself has never even watched the final cut. So bad in fact, that she packed it in and gave up on Hollywood. Christina Peters is now directing Hustler's "Young Sluts Inc" under the name "Kat Slater". I just hope for the sake of porn she has learned a thing or two about how to make a good, or at least tolerable "bad" movie.

Pointless Dribble.......2005-02-13

There is no true plot to this movie. It is genuinely meaningless. The movie centers around four girls who decide to teach men a lesson by assaulting them at gun point and rape them. Led by the sexual promiscuous member of the group, they set to first get "revenge" on one of the girl's boyfriends who just took her virginity. But here is where the movie comes undone. The guy did nothing wrong. He never raped or took advantage of the girl. She had what effectively amounts to buyer's remorse. Moreover, the promiscuous girl announces that their criminal actions were going to be done for "all women." With equal nebulous mindless indiscrimination, all men somehow become culpable for some baseless reason. The girls bumble their attempts, even somewhat humorously trying to arouse a young gay man. In the interim, the promiscuous leader, while having announced to her friends the worthlessness of the male race, goes out and pursues the worse examples of manhood, getting over her head with one married man, who brutally rapes her in front of his limo driver after throwing her over the hood of the car. The scenes erratically jumped from one to another with no smooth transitions or logical flow. Midway through the movie the original premise that the movie was based, namely punishing guys, disintegrates into a completely mindlessly undirected sequence of events. In one, the shrinking violet who just recently lost her virginity begins to have sex with another guy, but once again she decides she doesn't want sex with him and suddenly pulls out a gun and ends up shooting him to death. Perhaps this chick is just gay and doesn't know it or really is frightened by sex with men. But then again, why is she going with men and pursuing sex with them? The movie ends with the leader of the group burning to death in a comedy of unrealistic errors in trying to set off a fire alarm but inadvertently causes a real fire to rage through a school. That's it. That is the whole move. The whole, worthless, pointless movie. It makes no sense because there was no point to it. None of the female characters are coming across sympathetic. None were victims by anything other than their own stupidities. The leader of the group calls guys "mental midgets" but she ends up proving herself the smallest mental midget of all. The girls get themselves into their predicaments by mindlessly following an idiot and never once thinking or rationally analyzing the reality and truth of their lives in any honestly introspective way. Unlike the girls in the movie Foxfire, who are actually victimized and get revenge on their victimizer, you don't feel any sympathy for these mindless, witless wonders. The movie has no plot, the acting is awful, the editing is even worse, and the dialogue is horrifically unimaginative. The movie as a whole lacks any substance or purpose and never tells any kind of story. This therefore is NOT a movie but cinematographic masturbation.

We started a revolution you guys..........2005-02-04

This movie obviously isn't a big-budgeted hollywood production. It's about three girls at an all girls boarding school who are fed up with the way that guys are treating them and taking advantage of them. They decide to fight back by doing things to them to get even and hopefully teach them a lesson. You see how when these girls feel invisible and hurt and repressed, what they do to feel empowered and stand up for themselves, but lose their friendships in the process, which was more important than guys in the first place. I don't know why everyone thinks this movie is so terrible? Not ALL movies are glossy overproduced and manufactured big names with the intention of just making money. Some people think that it's going to be a "feminist" movie and are upset when they don't see girls running around and beating guys up. Well as you can see, these girls figure out their own boundaries, and what "feminism" means to them. Whether it's by saving yourself, or giving yourself up, they find out from their mistakes.

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Not for the slow witted or for those with Attention Deficit Disorder
Indeed a great film!
A glimpse of street life in Argentina
Boooooring....

Smokers Only
Starring: Cecilia Bengolea , Leonardo Brzezicki , Adrián Fondari , Pablo Razuk , and Fabián Talín
Director: Verónica Chen
Manufacturer: Strand Releasing
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ASIN: B000095J35
Release Date: 2003-04-29

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Not for the slow witted or for those with Attention Deficit Disorder.......2007-07-26

It doesn;t boast a Hollywood budget, and the film could have been improved in a few ways here and there, still it is a very good film that impressed me enough to but the DVD as soon as it came out. No regrets. This is an art film, with a sort of twisted romantic side, in the merciless and gritty streets of Buenos Aires. I appreciated this film even more since it did not deal with the usual subjects: The Dirty War, The Economic Depression, Peronism, or The General Misery the People (everyone looks old and disheveled in 90% of Argentine films). Worth the money, worth the time, I would like to see, eventually a sequel, and more films by Ms. Chen (director) and this fine cast, especially Ms. Bengolea. At thye time of this review I saw that "Agua" ("Water"), was just released in Feb 2007 in a film festival, Veronica Chen's second feature film. I hope it is a good one. Since I live in Orlando, FL, it is almost impossible to see a film like this in a movie theater, therefore I can either go to Miami to see them, or wait until they come out on DVD. Those of you who live in larger cities, count yourselves lucky!

Indeed a great film!.......2003-11-24

I found this film great as it deals with a subject that is complex but yet simple...love.
This film will make you feel the love that the two main characters have and also the realistic heartbreak that they will have to endure in the end.
You'll feel it if you follow it correctly.

A glimpse of street life in Argentina.......2003-11-01

SMOKERS ONLY is a low budget film that creates a mood, an insider's view of street existence of alienated kids in Argentina. Simply stated, this is the story of a young male hustler who sells himself in ATM areas in full view of the public, that public including a young girl singer who is an 'outsider'. She observes his tricking in public places with whatever men are interested in the dalliance and approaches the hustler in his own environment. She does not want to pay for for physical love but is clearly attracted to him, as he is to her. She meets his fellow hustlers, eventually does a three way as a street walker, but has fallen in love with her hustler and dreams of something better. The hustler admits that his vocation makes him feel desired and important and he is loathe to give it up. The girl is last seen aboard a train, just staring at the moving landscape.

A great movie, no. But Director Chen has used a very straight-forward approach in her examination of kids of the streets. Her camera man gets a bit carried away with movement but does seek out and find the sleezy nocturnal void that represents the lives of these 'children of the night'. In Spanish with subtitles. Not rated but while the film is about street life physical encounters, the seemy side of activity is sensitively and discretely shown in black and white as 'captured' by a guard video camera: documented reality but strangely otherworldly. The music score is as bizarre as the tale.......

Boooooring...........2003-07-12

Don't waste your money and time on this one.
No disernible plot, little character development, no consequence.
Ignore the hype, there's nothing here.

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Why all these bad reviews?
A Dog With Fleas
The director is now making porn
Pointless Dribble
We started a revolution you guys...

The Smokers
Starring: Dominique Swain , Busy Philipps , Keri Lynn Pratt , Nicholas M. Loeb , and Oliver Hudson
Director: Kat Slater
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Release Date: 2002-06-04

Customer Reviews:

Why all these bad reviews?.......2007-06-29

A Dog With Fleas.......2005-09-16

The director is now making porn.......2005-04-07

Pointless Dribble.......2005-02-13

We started a revolution you guys..........2005-02-04

Lung Cancer: A Risk for Smokers and Non-smokers

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Lung Cancer: A Risk for Smokers and Non-smokers

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Release Date: 2007-05-17

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In the United States approximately 170,000 people are diagnosed with lung cancer annually. In this program, we'll explore the challenges patients living with lung cancer face everyday. While smoking is a major risk factor for many patients with lung cancer, non-smokers are also at risk. With advancements in chemotherapy and targeted therapies many patients with lung cancer are living longer fuller lives - making the goal of reaching and surpassing the 5-year survival mark more of a reality.

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Why all these bad reviews?
A Dog With Fleas
The director is now making porn
Pointless Dribble
We started a revolution you guys...

The Smokers [Region 2]
Starring: Dominique Swain , Busy Philipps , Keri Lynn Pratt , Nicholas M. Loeb , and Oliver Hudson
Director: Kat Slater
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Customer Reviews:

Why all these bad reviews?.......2007-06-29

A Dog With Fleas.......2005-09-16

The director is now making porn.......2005-04-07

Pointless Dribble.......2005-02-13

We started a revolution you guys..........2005-02-04

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If You Love Someone Who Smokes

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ASIN: B00068RO3W
Release Date: 2006-07-13

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If You Love Someone Who Smokes is a video program made to get a person to quit smoking. Everyday, thousands of people try to quit. Some succeed. Most do not. Statistics show that scary medical videos and other "motication" just doesn't work. Neither do "you're a bad person" programs. This video shows neither of those things. Instead, it tells the simple and profound story of two friends - NYC media guru Tony Schwartz, and NYC top cop Ken McFeeley. As McFeeley was dying of lung cancer at 46 years old, he decided to work with Schwartz to make this program to help others quit smoking. To date, thousands have quit after hearing McFeeley's story and Schwartz has become known as "media central" for the anti-smoking effort. If You Love Someone Who Smokes contains no medical details, no "techniques" and supports no specific drug solution. But for thousands of smokers, the video gives them the heart and the courage to quit-- for the last time. Once you or your love ones have seen it, you can never forget it. Reviews: "If a smoker can sit through this and not try and kick his habit, he needs a psychiatrist." Clifton Reed, American Cancer Society "Many who have tried and failed will succeed through the experience of viewing this remarkable video." Dr. Harvey Fineberg, Harvard School of Public Health "If You love Someone Who Smokes, You Must Get Them to See This Tape." Dr Frank Field, Health Correspondent, CBS-TV Award: National Video Festival, Silver Apple

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