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Synopsis: Exactly one week in the life of a young man named Paterson of Paterson, New Jersey is presented. He lives an extremely regimented and routinized life, that routine perhaps most vividly displayed by the fact that he is able to wake up at exactly the same time every day without an alarm. That life includes eating Cheerios for breakfast, walking to work carrying his brown bag lunch packed in his lunch pail by his wife Laura, having a casual chat with his colleague Donny before he begins his shift driving the #23 Paterson bus for the local public transit company, walking home where he straightens out the exterior mailbox which somehow during the day gets knocked crooked, eating dinner with Laura and listening to her goings-on of the day, taking Laura's English bulldog Marvin - who he would admit to himself he doesn't much like - out for a walk to his neighborhood bar where he has one and only one beer before walking home with Marvin. There are day to day variations which are often the resu
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Jim Jarmusch
Production: K5 International
  9 wins & 33 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Metacritic:
90
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
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Year:
2016
118 min
$2,141,423
Website
7,122 Views


- Well she is like super hot, right?

- Oh yeah.

- And just like stacked too, just beautiful curves,

like an animal.

And you know, she comes over to me,

and she asks me what I'm doin' later...

- Oh, right.

- Yeah, right?

So we talked for a little while and uh, she was

like really flirtacious too man, you know...

Yeah, and finish my beer and... well man, you know, I had to

get up early for work the next morning and all that so...

- You split?

- Yeah. You know...

but it was cool though.

Um...

- I mean I knew exactly what she wanted, right?

- Right, yeah...

I got her number too.

She gave me her number.

So did you call her?

Nah, not yet. No.

- Cause I figured I'd wait a couple of days.

- Right.

- You know?

- Okay.

I should call her though.

- Yeah.

- I should.

You uh... you workin' late tonight?

- Yeah, I need the overtime.

- Yeah, me too.

Are you okay down here honey?

Uh... yeah.

Yeah I'm finished for now.

Now darling... you have two important things to talk

about before you and Marvin go out for your walk.

Oh... okay.

Two important things.

One's about you and one's about me.

Okay.

One's about your writing...

and you know what it is.

Please. Please make some copies.

You know that I know your poetry is really, really good.

And some day you might just decide

to let the world get to read it.

-Well I really don't...

No. Look me in the eye for a second.

Look me in the eye.

You are a great poet.

All your poems are still

in that one notebook.

- Your secret notebook.

- My secret notebook? Yeah.

So... will you finally just go to the

Xerox place or something?

Please! Just do it.

It would take about 10 minutes to make

a copy of your entire secret notebook.

I think it would take a little longer

than 10 minutes.

Okay, okay.

15 or 20 minutes.

I would even do it for you.

Baby, I've been asking for a year at least.

Yeah, you have.

Well maybe I could do it this weekend.

You promise?

- Yeah, okay.

- Thank you! I'll feel so much better.

What was the thing about you?

Well... it's not as important as that,

but...

I've been thinking about music lately,

and then I saw this guitar on Youtube...

that Esteban demonstrates and

it's in black and white...

it's called a Harlequin.

And it's so fantastic that I really think

I need to learn to play the guitar.

And it comes with lessons, dvds, instructions so...

in no time at all I could be playing

away and realizing my dream.

Uh... which dream is this?

Don't be silly!

To be a Country singer.

- Oh.

- Maybe even a big star like one of the greats.

Like... Tammy Wynette or Patsy Cline...

and I can wear black and white and

have my own distinctive style.

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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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