No Smoking(1993)
Two actors play eighteen different roles in a story that asks the question: would my life have been different if I hadn't lit a cigarette?
Movie: No Smoking
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Celia Teasdale / Sylvie Bell / Irene Pridworthy / Rowena Coombes / Josephine Hamilton
Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
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Two actors play eighteen different roles in a story that asks the question: would my life have been different if I hadn't lit a cigarette?
Release Date
1993-12-15
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7.7
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