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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 46 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 12, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon & Kate Winslet | |
Performer: | Steve Buscemi, Bobby Cannavale, Eddie Izzard, Mandy Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, Aida Turturro & Christopher Walken | |
Directed by | John Turturro | |
Edited by | Ray Hubley | |
Screenwriting by | John Turturro | |
Composition by | Paul Chihara | |
Produced by | John Penotti & John Turturro | |
Director of Photography: | Tom Stern | |
Executive Production by | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jana Edelbaum, Matthew Rowland & Nick Hill |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: A- --
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
Full Review
I.E. Weekly
Rating: 58/100 --
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.
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Apollo Guide
Rating: 3/4 --
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.'
Chicago Tribune
Rating: 3/4 --
It takes us on a unique, passionately committed journey.
Los Angeles Daily News
[The cast] injects the film with continual shots of adrenaline. The cast is clearly having the time of its life...and the excitement is contagious.
New York Times
Rating: D --
While it looks like it was great fun to film, it's regrettably little fun to watch.
AV Club
Rating: 4/5 --
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.
Full Review
DVDTalk.com
Product Description:
Part comedy, part romance, part drama, part musical, John Turturro's ROMANCE & CIGARETTES teeters on the brink of collapse at every single moment, just like the fragile characters that inhibit the film's frantic, manic world. The result is an unsettling, exhilarating, and thrillingly alive spectacle of a motion picture. Nick Murder (James Gandolfini) is a blue-collar worker who falls under the spell of the gorgeous redhead Tula (Kate Winslet). But when his frustrated wife, Kitty (Susan Sarandon), finds out, the Murder family begins to short circuit. Of the three daughters--Constance (Mary-Louise Parker), Rosebud (Aida Turturro), and Baby (Mandy Moore)--Baby appears to be next in line for love, though no one approves of her choice of mate, the goofy Fryburg (Bobby Cannavale). Kitty's absurd Cousin Bo (a hilarious Christopher Walken) helps her to track down Tula, but that proves to be a futile exercise as well. Along the way, there are crude coworkers (Steve Buscemi), annoying neighbors (Amy Sedaris), and brash in-laws (Elaine Stritch) to add even more zaniness to the proceedings. To make matters more bizarre, characters break out into song-and-dance routines whenever the fancy strikes them. While Turturro's film is certainly an acquired taste, it is nonetheless one of the more distinct works of the decade. He creates a world that is on the verge of absolute collapse, with characters who are clearly desperate to retain a connection to someone or something in our harsh modern world.