Holy Smoke!

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Holy Smoke!
Holy Smoke! DVD cover
Directed by	Jane Campion
Produced by	Jan Chapman
Written by	Anna Campion, Jane Campion
Starring	Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Pam Grier
Music by	Angelo Badalamenti
Cinematography	Dion Beebe
Editing by	Veronika Jenet
Distributed by	Miramax Films
Release date(s)	September 4, 1999
Running time	115 min.
Language	English
Budget	N/A
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Holy Smoke! is a 1999 Australian film directed by Jane Campion, starring Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel. The original music score is composed by Angelo Badalamenti. The film was marketed with the tagline "Sex captive in desert hideaway... young beauty seduced by macho American twice her age."

1 Plot summary
2 Main cast
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Plot summary

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On a trip to India, Australian beauty Ruth Barron has a spiritual awakening and embraces the teachings of a guru named Baba. Back home in Sydney, Ruth's mother and father are appalled to learn that their daughter now answers to the name Nazni and has no intention of returning. Mother visits her daughter in India in hopes of convincing her to come home, but it is not until she suffers an asthma attack that Ruth agrees to return home for a visit.

Mother pretends to arrange a meeting with Ruth's father, who has been ill, and this trick lands her in the clutches of P.J. Waters, an American exit counselor who deprograms members of religious cults. Waters begins to loosen Ruth's beliefs in Baba's teachings, but P.J. finds himself sexually attracted to Ruth, and in time she allows him to seduce her. Ruth soon turns the tables on P.J., as she discovers that sexuality allows her to make mincemeat of his long-held beliefs as a macho, misogynist male.