Coffee and Cigarettes

Coffee and Cigarettes

🎞️ Movie 95 min US
โ˜… 7.0 /10 2003

Eleven separate vignettes are presented. In each, celebrities, playing semi-fictionalized versions of themselves (with the exception of the characters of various wait staff, and one actor playing a lookalike cousin of herself), meet in a food service establishment with coffee/tea and cigarettes involved. Beyond the topic of discussion that brought them together, they often talk directly about coffee and cigarettes, more often that coffee and cigarettes, and by association caffeine and nicotine, are not healthy, especially if they are the only things constituting lunch. Other recurring themes include the Lee family, cousinhood, celebrity worship, the connection between the medical and musical careers, and Nikola Tesla's belief that the Earth is a conductor of acoustic resonance. In all cases, the coming together for coffee/tea and smokes acts as a bridge to overcome disagreements, and/or makes uncomfortable situations less uncomfortable.

Direction
Screenplay

Cast

Bill Murray
Bill Murray
Bill Murray (segment: Delirium)
Tom Waits
Tom Waits
Tom (segment: Somewhere in California)
Roberto Benigni
Roberto Benigni
Roberto (segment: Strange to Meet You)
RZA
RZA
RZA (segment: Delirium)
Steven Wright
Steven Wright
Steven (segment: Strange to Meet You)
Joie Lee
Joie Lee
Good Twin (segment: Twins)
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Cinqué Lee
Evil Twin
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Cinqué Lee
Kitchen Guy (segment: Twins
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Cinqué Lee
Jack Shows Meg His Tesla Coil)
Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi
Danny (segment: Twins)
Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop
Iggy (segment: Somewhere in California)
Joseph Rigano
Joseph Rigano
Joe (segment: Those Things'll Kill Ya)
Tom DiCillo
Tom DiCillo
Cinematographer
Frederick Elmes
Frederick Elmes
Cinematographer
Ellen Kuras
Ellen Kuras
Cinematographer
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Robby Müller
Cinematographer

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