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Holy Smoke
Comedy, Drama
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer 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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy provocative culture-clash dramas that turn power struggles, sexuality, and spiritual certainty into sharp social comedy.
- Tone
- satirical, playful, bittersweet
- Payoff
- catharsis, amusement
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- religious authority, cultural displacement, gender power, family control, sexual autonomy
- Setting
- late twentieth century, Indian spiritual communities and remote Australian desert
Content dimensions
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