Romance and Cigarettes (2005)
Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 60
Fresh: 32 | Rotten: 28
This movie musical aims for fun and modern, but Romance and Cigarettes is too scattered and uneven to achieve either.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 6
This movie musical aims for fun and modern, but Romance and Cigarettes is too scattered and uneven to achieve either.
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Actor and filmmaker John Turturro wrote and directed this emotionally resonant blend of music and drama. Nick Murder (James Gandolfini) is an ironworker who has been married for years to Kitty (Susan Sarandon), who works as a seamstress and is the mother of Nick's three daughters. While Nick loves his wife, his head is turned by Tula (Kate Winslet), a sexy salesgirl at a lingerie shop, and soon they're having a passionate affair. When Kitty finds out about Nick's infidelity, she becomes enraged
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Cast
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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 -
P.J. Brown
Police Officer -
Adam Le Fevre
Fruitman -
Tonya Pinkins
Female Medic -
David Thonton
Urologist -
Kumar Pullana
Da Da Kumar -
June Stein
Frances' Mother -
Michael McElroy
"Ten Commandments" Prie... -
Joseph Longo
Altar Boy -
Devon McRimmon
Altar Boy -
Amedeo Turturro
Fryburg Friend -
Ryan Webb
Fryburg Friend -
Jacob Lumet-Cannavale
Fryburg Friend -
Diego Turturro
Boy on Tricycle -
Yianni Digaletos
The Greek -
Katherine Turturro
Choir Lady/Singer -
Alexandra Beller
Female Dancer/Singer -
Katherine Borowitz
Female Dancer/Singer -
Tricia Brouk
Female Dancer/Singer -
Mary Bond Davis
Female Dancer/Singer -
LaRita Gaskins
Female Dancer/Singer -
Karen Graham
Female Dancer/Singer -
Kelly Robertson
Female Dancer/Singer -
Daria Hardeman
Female Dancer/Singer -
Lisa Tachick Hooper
Female Dancer/Singer -
Wanda L. Houston
Female Dancer/Singer -
Cady Huffman
Roe -
Kate Lang Johnson
Female Dancer/Singer -
Rosalynde LeBlanc
Female Dancer/Singer -
Adele Meyers
Female Dancer/Singer -
Rosetta Milardi
Female Dancer/Singer -
Emily Molnar
Female Dancer/Singer -
Elizabeth H. Parkinson
Female Dancer/Singer -
Nourhan Sharif
Female Dancer/Singer -
Valerie Striar
Female Dancer/Singer -
Rebecca Wender
Female Dancer/Singer -
Brian Arch
Male Dancer/Singer -
Félix Blaska
Male Dancer/Singer -
James Borowitz
Male Dancer/Singer -
Joao Caravalho
Male Dancer/Singer -
Alex Escalante
Male Dancer/Singer -
Clarence Figgures
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Rudy Heron
Male Dancer/Singer -
Eric Jackson
Male Dancer/Singer -
John Kelly
Male Dancer/Singer -
David Scott Klein
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Victorio Korjhan
Male Dancer/Singer -
Gelan Lambert Jr.
Male Dancer/Singer -
Laurent Lambert
Male Dancer/Singer -
Raul Merced
Male Dancer/Singer -
Christopher McGovern
Fireman, Male Dancer/Si... -
Otto Moreira
Male Dancer/Singer -
Christopher Morgan
Male Dancer/Singer -
Vincent Orofino
Male Dancer/Singer -
Joe Paparone
Male Dancer/Singer -
John Selya
Male Dancer/Singer -
Gus Solomons jr
Male Dancer/Singer -
John Turturro
Male Dancer/Singer -
Takehiro Ueyama
Male Dancer/Singer -
Dared Wright
Male Dancer/Singer -
Tom Bruno
Fireman -
Scott Friese
Fireman -
Neil Jorgensen
Fireman -
Buddy McKay
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Robert Morgan
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Robert A. Pennacchia
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Dave Ryan
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Salty Holmes
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Kendall Washington
Fireman -
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All Critics (61) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (30) | DVD (9)
In a season seasoned with off-beat originality in the movies, from Lars and the Real Girl to I'm Not There, you still have not seen anything quite like John Turturro's extraordinary Romance and Cigarettes.
How weird is John Turturro's Romance & Cigarettes? Almost indescribably weird, though also strangely involving.
Romance and Cigarettes is a dark-red valentine to the way that pop music gets under our skin.
It is not every musical that features lung cancer and James Gandolfini singing along with Engelbert Humperdinck to that every-day-I-wake-up 1960s standard 'A Man Without Love.'
This singing-along-to-the-radio effect has a dingy charm that honors the blue-collar Italian setting, yet Turturro spoils it by turning the movie into a hip star party.
The movies need more of this kind of crazy.
Romance & Cigarettes wears thin, like a moral for the titular addiction: Sure, there's the sweet dream of that first drag, but a whole pack'll do a body bad.
Se trata de toda una sorpresa, un experimento hecho con pasión y mucha complicidad %u2013se nota- y sin temor al ridículo, lo que la convierte en una obra inusual y arriesgada.
... it feels a bit off-key and a lot unfocused.
When it succeeds, it soars with great abandon, and when it fails, it fails so grandly that we still want to applaud it. This is a madhouse of a movie.
It shouldn't work, but there's something beautiful in Turturro's non-judgmental, almost affectionate, exposure of human love as the courting dance of clueless primates
The film has an overall tonal inconsistency and suffers from the occasional bout of tin-ear-itis, which ultimately derails this sometimes interesting attempt at reinvigorating the genre.
...you have not lived till you've seen Walken belt out a Tom Jones tune.
It takes us on a unique, passionately committed journey.
John Turturro has crafted a truly unique American musical worthy of the Coen brothers' executive producer credits.
One of the most inventive, surprising and challenging American films of 2005. Pity that it's 2007.
A step away from Springtime for Hitler -- a classic awful.
Audience Reviews for Romance and Cigarettes
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Kate Winslet though. Man, has she got that va-va-vavoom! Love her trashy accent, her trashy dancing, her trashy talk.
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