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Romance & Cigarettes (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• During her last week of filming, Kate Winslet twisted her ankle while doing a dance sequence at a hotel suite with James Gandolfini.
  
  
• The movie was delayed for almost two years because of James Gandolfini's commitment to "The Sopranos" (1999).
  
  
• Writer-director John Turturro chose the songs featured in this film before he had secured their rights. While waiting for Gandolfini to be free from shooting "The Sopranos" (1999), the director went around to secure these rights from their songwriters and singers.
  
  
• Although the film was shown at the Venice Film Festival and had an official release in the UK in 2006, the movie was not released in the US for years. This was mainly due to the fact that MGM was bought by a consortium headed by Sony in 2005, which led to a legal mess of whom, either MGM or Sony has the rights to the movie. In August 2007 director John Turturro decided to distribute the movie with his own money.
  
  
• James Gandolfini is only a year older than Aida Turturro, who plays his daughter in the film. Also, his other daughter is played by Mary-Louise Parker, who is in fact merely three years younger than him.
  
  
• Fryburg, the name of Bobby Cannavale's character, is also the name of a small, west Pennsylvania town. Fryburg, Pa. had a Catholic school named St. Michael's which was also the name of the Catholic school Bobby Cannavale attended.
  
  

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