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Movie Info

A new romance with an attorney (Gabrielle Dennis) helps reinvigorate a man (Darrin Dewitt Henson) after he's fired from the company his father built.

Rating:

PG (Language|Thematic Material|Some Sexual References)
Genre:

romance
Original Language:

English
Director:

Mark Harris
Producer:

N.D. Brown, Mark Harris
Writer:

Mark Harris
Release Date (Theaters):

Jan 10, 2014 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Jul 26, 2020
Runtime:

1h 25m
Production Co:

1555 Filmworks

Cast & Crew

Darrin Dewitt Henson
Robert

Gabrielle Dennis
Morgan

Christian Keyes
Julian

Erica Hubbard
Mita

Lamman Rucker
Hill

Richard Gallion
Duke

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Critic Reviews for Black Coffee

All Critics (10) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (6)

In the end, there's nothing wrong with an overly positive outlook on relationships, and Harris has a nice hand with bits of dialogue that do ring true.

January 17, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

Mary Houlihan
Chicago Sun-Times
A weak brew of light romance and heavy-handed messages.

January 12, 2014 | Full Review…

Geoff Berkshire
Variety
A confused muddle, with characters who often behave in ways that have no correlation to actual human behavior, and language that exists in order to prop up the agenda.

January 10, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Sheila O'Malley
RogerEbert.com
Black Coffee never resorts to stale melodrama or cheap laughs, sticking true to a low key straight romance between characters that aren't locked into stereotype.

August 29, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Nicholas Bell
IONCINEMA.com
Middling rom-com tackles ambition and romance, heavy themes.

October 28, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Tracy Moore
Common Sense Media
Black Coffee's courtship-over-eroticism ideals are appealing, but the film is too nice to bother us with things like conflict or drama.

April 13, 2014 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…

Adrian Centeno
We Got This Covered
A pleasant, if predictable, romantic romp determined to march inexorably to an implausible, happily ever after finale, whether you like it or not.

January 16, 2014 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

Kam Williams
Baret News
Screeching meets social-minded speechifying in the misguided Black Coffee, which is shot through with trite expressions of familiar scenarios.

January 14, 2014 | Rating: 4/10 | Full Review…

Brent Simon
Paste Magazine
Set in a weirdly sterile and unconvincing yuppie utopia, this would-be serious study of heterosexual commingling has an empty, synthetic quality from its very first scenes.

January 10, 2014 | Full Review…

David Noh
Film Journal International
Projects personality and integrity, submitting a warm relationship drama with a few good laughs and a desire to inspire viewers, trying to make the world a better place. It's hard to argue with such a friendly objective.

January 9, 2014 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Brian Orndorf
Blu-ray.com