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In a film set in this city, a girl practices piano while being paid to “babysit” her cousin, who was murdered several months prior. A film set in this city won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1996, despite the rumored extreme reluctance of Francis Ford Coppola. Thomas runs a pet smuggling operation in this city, (15[1])where Christina performs a striptease to Leonard Cohen’s “Everybody (15[1])Knows.” Another film largely set in this city ends with two brothers dying together after one disembowels the other (-5[1])using a set of bizarre tools (15[1])he had earlier attempted to use during a surgery. (*) In a third film set in this city, a man whispers “maybe next time” to his injured wife as they begin to have sex next to her destroyed car. Atom Egoyan was a part of a “New Wave '' from this city, where he set Exotica. For 10 points, David Cronenberg was born in what Canadian city, which often serves as a stand-in for New York? ■END■ (10[1])

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