Coffee and Cigarettes Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Director(s): Jim Jarmusch
Production: MGM
  2 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
64%
R
Year:
2003
95 min
$1,971,135
Website
7,256 Views


the white jumpsuits, and the capes.

Elvis wouldn't do that.

And it was his brother who got really fat.

You know, eating those

banana-fried butter sandwiches and all.

The Colonel said, "We gotta get rid

of this guy. He can't be Elvis anymore."

So they started feeding him pills.

I think they killed him.

So what? What are you saying?

What's the punch line?

- Y'all are Elvis fans?

- No.

You wanna hear something about Elvis?

I'll tell you something about him.

- You ever heard of Otis Blackwell?

- No, ma'am.

- You ever heard of Junior Parker?

- No, ma'am.

Yeah, I didn't think so.

You know, Elvis robbed their music, man.

He paid them $10 for their music,

and all these other black musicians, too.

- That's what I think of Elvis.

- Here's where my theory fits.

I don't think it was Elvis.

I think it was his brother.

So in that case, it's all right?

My favorite Elvis quote is, "The only thing

colors can do for me is shine my shoes."

I don't think the King said that.

See, I think it was his evil twin.

Danny, what you doing over there?

You got tables to wait on. Come on.

- I'll be right back.

- Yeah, don't get fired, man.

Slaphappy hillbilly.

Cheers.

Something smells funny in here.

Is that my shirt you got on?

No, I don't think so.

Yeah, I think it is.

This doesn't smell like me.

Yeah? What do you smell like?

I smell like me,

and this doesn't smell like me.

- I smell like me, too.

- But this smells like you.

That's because I am me.

Is that my shirt?

- Why you always copying me, anyway?

- I'm not copying you.

- Why don't you get your own style?

- I have my own style.

No, you're always copying me.

Your style is my style because you copy it.

- It's my style.

- No, it's not your style.

Service is bad, the coffee is bad,

the music sucks.

Those are my shoes.

- These are my shoes.

- Those are my shoes.

- These are my shoes.

- Those are my other shoes.

Bullshit.

- Hey.

- Hey, Tom.

- All right.

- I'm glad you could make it.

You are here.

You know, you can call me Jim.

I mean, you know, my friends call me Jim,

or Jimmy, or lggy, or Jiggy.

Call me lggy.

Okay, all right, whichever way you go.

I'll go either way, Jim or lggy...

You call me lggy.

Look, I'm sorry I'm late, Jim.

Boy, four-car pileup.

I delivered a baby this morning

at about 9:
00.

I was saving lives,

I was out there on the highway, it was...

You know, there's nothing worse

than roadside surgery.

You don't have your own tools,

and it's just... It's murder.

I performed a tracheotomy

with a ballpoint pen and...

I've been busy.

Wait a minute. You're a doctor?

Yeah, I'm a doctor.

Music and medicine, really.

It's really been my thing.

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Jim Jarmusch

James Robert Jarmusch (born January 22, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor, and composer. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing such films as Stranger Than Paradise (1984), Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Dead Man (1995), Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), Broken Flowers (2005), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Paterson (2016). Stranger Than Paradise was added to the National Film Registry in December 2002. As a musician, Jarmusch has composed music for his films and released two albums with Jozef van Wissem. more…

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