| Home for the Holidays (1995) | Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Cynthia Stevenson "stars Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr., playing sister and brother, indulge in cozy small talk while sharing a cigarette, puffing and swapping it. It's a nice, intimate -- and very empty -- scene because you have no idea what they're talking about. You become hypnotized by that cigarette going back and forth, back and forth, to the point of blocking out their dialogue. Earlier in the film, you notice that Anne Bancroft, playing their mother, does all of her initial scenes with a cigarette dangling off her lip, in both lighted and unlighted states." "overlooked in your review was a very quick scene where Cynthia Stevenson (of Hope and Gloria) playing the uptight sister Joanne during the 'cleanup after thanksgiving' scene intercepts the cigarette being passed around and takes a drag- camera cuts away before her exhale though" "Hunter lights what appears to be a joint in one scene, shares a cig with Downey, nice exhale too, then takes a drag in the kitchen. Also dangles an unlit one. Stevenson takes a drag as well, but the camara pulls away just as she takes her puff."
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