Romance & Cigarettes (2005)
How can you go wrong with this star-studded cast?
This is a musical tragedy/comedy love story set in the working class world.
Nick (James Gandolfini) is married to Kitty (Susan Sarandon), a dressmaker, a very strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters.
But his family homelife is seemingly not enough for him, as he is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula (Kate Winslet).
Although deep down he is a good and hardworking family man, he is driven forward by his urges. But redeems himself through repentence after accepting the errand of his ways.
In an imaginative, humorous, and touching way, Romance and Cigarettes explores the cost and value of a relationship through life and death.
When the characters can no longer express themselves with language, they break into song, lip-synching the tunes lodged in their subconscious and even when they are expressing themselves in words, they use song-titles at times to express their feelings.
It is their way to escape the harsh reality of their world.
Memorable quotes:
Kitty Kane: What really happened between you and Ro?
Cousin Bo: Ro… was my first love. I traced her name in cow shit. She was my first, my last, my everything…
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Nick Murder: Would you give me one more chance? Please? I’ll do anything! Anything! I’ll give you anything! I love you. Maybe I don’t know how to show it like they do in the movies or in books but I love. I have love to give.
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Rosebud: I heard you with Fryburg. He makes loud noises, and I hear them
Constance: He makes loud noises?
Rosebud: Yeah, I wanna make them too. I told my psychiatrist
Constance: what?
Rosebud: Well I had nothin else to tell him so…
Fryburg: HEY!…
Constance: Oh, fuck off Fryburg
Fryburg: I’m a fucking star!
Constance: Did he do his Richard Gere for you, jumping all around in his jockstrap?
Fryburg: GEAR!
Rosebud: I love Richard Gere. He’s hot
Fryburg: Hot chocolate!
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Film Information
Year: 2005
Cast: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale, Mandy Moore, Aida Turturro, Christopher Walken, Eddie Izzard
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