Coffee and Cigarettes

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Coffee and Cigarettes

R

2004

1h 36m

Comedy

Drama

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This 11-vignette film focuses on the human interactions that happen while partaking in the everyday indulgence of coffee and cigarettes. Featuring well-known actors and other artists as themselves or some version thereof, the film highlights the nuances and subtle hostilities that can be a part of seemingly normal conversations. Bill Murray waits on the Wu-Tang Clan, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits get on each other's nerves and Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes discuss Nikola Tesla.

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Critics Consensus

Episodes vary in quality, but overall this talky film is quirkily engaging.

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Peter Rainer

New York Magazine/Vulture

08/07/2004

What unites everything is Jarmusch's playful, hang-dog absurdism.

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Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

07/25/2004

2.5/5

By Jarmusch's own previously set standards in such films as Stranger Than Paradise, Ghost Dog, and Dead Man, Coffee and Cigarettes serves up a weak brew.

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Stanley Kauffmann

The New Republic

06/13/2004

The film is a series of scenes, skits, episodes, that show two or sometimes three people smoking and sipping and conversing, usually in grungy places and usually improvising -- at least that's the intended impression.

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Sean Axmaker

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09/09/2023

... an anthology of curiosities, some more curious than others, wound around a diverse cast paired off for random ramblings over caffeine and nicotine.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

09/05/2020

3.0/4.0

Jarmusch is definitely an acquired taste, but his true fans will find this collection a joy and fans of film who long for the simplicity of true filmmaking.

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Mark Steyn

The Spectator

01/25/2018

I have the horrible feeling that in cold print that sounds a lot livelier than it is. In practice, it plays like an overlong round of Whose Line Is It Anyway? where all the participants are stoned.

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Drew M.

@Stonehands211 Mar 3

This one will test a lot of people’s patience but I was very taken with it. I found a lot of the conversations to be entertaining and mostly funny. Not even sure which one was my favorite because there were so many good ones, honestly.

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john h

@RT11274104 04/02/2025

Coffee and Cigarettes is an anthology drama written and directed by Jim Jarmusch over an extensive period of time before finally being released in the early 2000s. It has an interesting concept of dark humor played out in multiple stories of celebrities and Jarmusch actors. Some of the main diversities between critics and audiences is what the film has to say which might as well be the everyday mundaneness as portrayed in pop culture.

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Alejandro E

@Alex970 12/01/2024

With Jim Jarmusch's characteristic stamp, the 11 stories that give life to this film have their raison d'être, above all because of a cast in which each one plays himself. And it serves as an example of how a coffee shop is a miniature cosmos.

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Navel B

@RT96528127 11/20/2024

Im not a movie buff. Take it for what it is. None of the characters or stories are connected. Its a monotone and dry movie and Its supposed to be. Most will find it lacking in some or multiple ways. But most people are boring and suck anyways so whatever. I think it's great.

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Dušan A

@RT86182278 11/13/2024

Crazy dialogues, memorable lines and scenes

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Dani G

@RT81139271 08/22/2024

A very Jarmusch film as expected, with a parade of personalities being themselves...

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Synopsis

This 11-vignette film focuses on the human interactions that happen while partaking in the everyday indulgence of coffee and cigarettes. Featuring well-known actors and other artists as themselves or some version thereof, the film highlights the nuances and subtle hostilities that can be a part of seemingly normal conversations. Bill Murray waits on the Wu-Tang Clan, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits get on each other's nerves and Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes discuss Nikola Tesla.

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Producer: Joana Vicente, Jason Kliot
Screenwriter: Jim Jarmusch
Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co: Asmik Ace Entertainment
Rating: R (Language)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 14, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 14, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $2.0M
Runtime: 1h 36m