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Title: Romance & Cigarettes (2005)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| James Gandolfini | ... | Nick Murder | |
| Susan Sarandon | ... | Kitty Kane | |
| Kate Winslet | ... | Tula | |
| Steve Buscemi | ... | Angelo | |
| Bobby Cannavale | ... | Fryburg | |
| Mandy Moore | ... | Baby | |
| Mary-Louise Parker | ... | Constance | |
| Aida Turturro | ... | Rosebud | |
| Christopher Walken | ... | Cousin Bo | |
| Barbara Sukowa | ... | Gracie | |
| Elaine Stritch | ... | Nick's Mother | |
| Eddie Izzard | ... | Gene Vincent | |
| Amy Sedaris | ... | Frances | |
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P.J. Brown | ... | Police Officer |
| Adam LeFevre | ... | Fruitman | |
Nick and Kitty Murder are married middle-aged working class New Yorkers. Kitty catches Nick in an indiscretion when she finds a love poem, extolling the virtues of one specific body part, Nick wrote to his mistress, Tula. The poem is the last straw for Kitty regarding their marriage. Kitty has the support of their three grown daughters - biological or other - her cousin Bo, her pastor and others at the church. They help her with among other things finding and thus dealing with Tula, who she does not know, and looking back at if she made a mistake in choosing Nick over her first love. On the other side, Nick turns to his co-worker Angelo, and a local police officer/ex-military man for advice, which he also gets unsolicited from his tough talking mother. Nick still has Tula, a frank-talking Northern English sex shop clerk, who truly loves Nick's body parts as he loves hers. A little emotional distance may provide Nick and Kitty the best perspective of what their future holds. Written by Huggo
A film truly worthy of the Coen brothers. If you like their films, you'll love this one. It was not surprising to see that they were the producers. John Turturro's original script and direction make this a very fresh and enjoyable experience. The actors must have enjoyed making the film as this comes across very strongly.
The choice of backdrop - New York suburbs and anonymous looking workers' housing - only serves only to emphasise the colourfulness of each of the characters. Like Robert Altman's films, the banal is turned into the extraordinary using popular music and quite original camera work. Personally, I don't see this film as a "musical" in the sense that the music is not used to tell the story but rather as mood pieces for various scenes.
This is one of the few films that I will invest in the DVD as soon as it is out.