Product Details

• Actors: Alicia Witt, Scott Bakula, Matthew Settle, Talia Shire, Eric Keenleyside
• Directors: David Carson
• Writers: Nora Roberts, Ronni Kern
• Producers: James Hilton, Jay Smith, Jordy Randall, Murray Ord, Peter Guber
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Unknown)
• Subtitles: English, French
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: September 11, 2007
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000S1KUME
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,874 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Blue Smoke" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Blue Smoke features a strong cast, including Alicia Witt (The Upside of Anger, Two Weeks Notice), Matthew Settle (TV’s Brothers & Sisters, ER), four-time Emmy Award® nominee Scott Bakula (TV’s Enterprise, Quantum Leap), and two-time Academy Award® nominee Talia Shire (The Godfather Part 2, Rocky), in this suspenseful tale rife with passion, family, food and fire.

After her family's pizzeria burned to the ground when she was 11 years old, Reena (Alicia Witt) decides to become an arson investigator. Now an adult, she visits her old neighborhood and finds love with Bo Goodnight (Matthew Settle). But danger lurks when a mysterious stalker from her past resurfaces and Reena must use her sleuthing skills to snare the psycho before her life goes up in Blue Smoke.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good enough to engage your attention, and keep it..., August 10, 2007

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M. B. Alcat "Curiosity killed the cat, but sa... (Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Smoke (DVD)

"Blue smoke" is a fast paced film, based on a novel of the same name written by Nora Roberts. This movie has ingredients of mystery and romance, and is likely to please those that are just looking for entertainment.

The main character is Reena (Alicia Witt), a young woman that doesn't like fire but decides to turn into an arson investigator in order to fight her fear. Things aren't easy for her, though, as she loses people she cares about to fire. Traumatized, Reena begins to suspect that a pyromaniac is stalking her, waiting to kill the people she loves. But is Reena right, or is her imagination too active?

All in all, I think that "Blue smoke" is a movie you shouldn't miss if you are a fan of Robert's books, and one you will probably like if you are not. From my point of view, this is not an outstanding film, but I believe it is good enough to engage your attention, and keep it. That is the reason why I give "Blue smoke" 3.5 stars.

Belen Alcat

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Above Average Made for TV Film, September 15, 2007

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blue Smoke (DVD)

Readers of Nora Roberts books will doubtless want to watch this adaptation of one of her popular novels (to date there are four of her books translated into made for television movies). The story, as adapted by Ronni Kern, is straight forward with enough of a mixture of love scenes and action scenes to please the audience. No, this is not a major league film, but it is made with a fine cast of actors who bring the drama to life.

Reena Hale (Alicia Witt) watched as her family's pizzeria burned to the ground after a scuffle between Reena's father Gib (Eric Keenleyside) and neighbor Joe Pastorelli (David Brown). Pastorelli is convicted of arson and swears to get even. Jump years later and Reena is now an arson investigator under the tutelage of Officer John Minger (Scott Bakula) who had solved the case in Reena's family's loss. Once credentialed, Reena finds herself stalked by an arsonist who just happens to include two of Reena's boyfriends as victims of deaths by fire. The story is a search and destroy mission to discover the identity of the arsonist and Reena is aided by her newest love interest Bo Goodnight (Matthew Settle) in a taut, well paced and well filmed adventure: if the identity of the arsonist is rather apparent early on, that doesn't diminish the suspense aspect of the film.

The supporting cast includes fine actor Talia Shire as Reena's mother, a role that adds a touch of human comedy as well as unconditional love that lifts the story just when it needs grounding, as well as some very fine fresh faces with promise. David Carson directs the many fire scenes with a good sense of 'reality' and delivers a sound message about the worth of arson investigators and firemen. But in the end it is Alicia Witt's movie and she carries her character well. Good entertainment. Grady Harp, September 07

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Average tv movie, September 25, 2007

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NoWireHangers (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blue Smoke (DVD)

This is the second Nora Roberts adaptation that I've seen, after "Angels Fall", and the first one where I've read the book. The book Blue Smoke was pretty good but not without flaws, and the movie shares some of its flaws. The biggest one is how long it takes for Reena to figure out who her nemesis is (although this was less obvious in the movie than in the book). One bad thing that the movie adds is that the climax feels more silly than suspenseful (especially because the bad guy actor speaks in a really silly voice, supposedly because he had cancer - anyway it was way too over-the-top).

I did like this movie better than "Angels Fall", which somehow felt cheaper. Alicia Witt did a pretty good job playing Reena, but the best performance was by the still very beautiful Talia Shire playing her mother. But overall, it's an average tv-movie, no better or worse than most of its kind, but definitely not good enough for a theatrical release. Recommended for Roberts fans and fans of romantic suspense made-for-tv-movies. Others needn't bother.