Release Date: August 19, 2005
Distributor: MGM/UA (Sony Pictures Classics)
Film Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: United States
Director(s): John Turturro
Cast: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, Mandy Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, Christopher Walken, Aida Turturro, Bobby Cannavale
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Synopsis:
Romance and Cigarettes is a down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick (Gandolfini) is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He’s married to Kitty (Sarandon), a dressmaker, a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula (Winslet). Nick is basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by will and blinded by his urges. Like Oedipus at Colonus, he is sent into exile and searches to find his way back through the damage he has done. 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. It is their way to escape the harsh reality of their world – to dream, to remember, and to connect to another human being.

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