Movie Info
Genre
Musical, RomanceRelease Date
September 07, 2007 (NY)MPAA Rating
RDuration
115 min.Studio
MGM
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Cast and Crew
Director
John TurturroProducer
John Penotti, John TurturroScreenwriter
John TurturroStarring
- James Gandolfini
- Susan Sarandon as Kitty Kane
- Kate Winslet as Tula
- Steve Buscemi
- Kumar Pallana
- Christopher Walken as Cousin Bo
- Mandy Moore as Baby
- Aida Turturro
- Mary-Louise Parker
Movie Story
"Romance & 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 & 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.
