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| 3 | ''Romance & Cigarettes'' is a 2005 American {{musical}} comedy film, written and directed by Creator/JohnTurturro and featuring an AllStarCast. |
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| 5 | It stars Creator/JamesGandolfini and Creator/SusanSarandon as Nick and Kitty Murder, a working-class New York couple living with their adult daughters Baby (Music/MandyMoore), Constance (Creator/MaryLouiseParker), and Rosebud (Creator/AidaTurturro). Nick is discovered to be having an affair with Tula (Creator/KateWinslet), turning his family against him and forcing them -- and everyone else in their neighborhood, including Nick's coworker Angelo (Creator/SteveBuscemi) and Kitty's cousin Bo (Creator/ChristopherWalken) -- to confront their issues with sex, love, marriage, and family. Generally in song form. |
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| 8 | !! This film provides examples of: |
| 9 | * BreakingTheCycleOfBadParenting: Nick is convinced to end his affair with Tula and try to reconcile with Kitty when his mother tells him that his father and his grandfather were both notorious for their womanizing. |
| 10 | * DaydreamSurprise: Two of the musical sequences -- "Delilah" and "Little Water Song" -- include one character killing another, and it's not made clear until the song's over that they're both still alive and well. |
| 11 | * DeathbringerTheAdorable: The Murder family are not entirely unfamiliar with violence -- Nick was in the Navy and they get in occasional scrapes and tussles -- but they're nice people, more interested in music and arts and crafts than in murder. |
| 12 | * HappilyAdopted: Rosebud loves her adoptive family, and even helps out her father when the others are still shunning him. |
| 13 | * SexySilhouette: For a given measure of "sexy" during the "Delilah" routine. Bo watches another man have sex with his wife in silhouettes through a curtain. |
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