Round 4: Tossup 7

This film drew inspiration from Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton for an older woman’s wedding to a Dominican playboy. The piece “Never Cursed” plays as a man in this film has a vision of his mother while hallucinating in bed. (-5[1])At the end of this film, a woman narrates by the fire that “life is no great (10[1])mystery” over shots of her pushing a baby carriage and dancing with her husband amid fallen balloons (-5[1])at a party. This (15[1])film’s two leads fight over (*) asparagus prepared with butter, and meet when the man orders a massive breakfast. The protagonist knowingly eats a poisonous omelet at the climax of this film, in which a foreign waitress comes to live with him (10[1])and his sister Cyril at the House of Woodcock. For 10 points, Vicky Krieps (“creeps”) and Daniel Day-Lewis star in what 2017 (10[1])Paul Thomas Anderson film about dressmaking? ■END■

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