Coffee and Cigarettes Page #4

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
7,464 Views


You like the coffee down there at IHOP?

I drink the coffee at IHOP.

I like the coffee. You don't like it?

Yeah, man. I like the IHOP coffee.

- Classy brew.

- Yeah, that's good coffee.

Yeah, that's good coffee at the IHOP.

I almost forgot. Listen.

I worked with this drummer

the other day in LA.

And this guy, man, his name is Giant Robo.

He was clanging and banging really hard.

Man, I thought of you.

Maybe you want to...

This is somebody,

I think you ought to check him out.

You mean,

you think I need a professional drummer?

I'm not good enough?

What are you talking about?

No, but I'm just...

You know, it's a musician.

I thought... I just wanted to tell you

about this guy. It'd be great, man.

It's hard and industrial, and he's beating,

and I just thought, "Wow."

What are you trying to tell me?

I need a drummer?

I could use a drummer?

The drumming on my records sucks?

What are you saying?

Forget it, man.

You know what?

- I think I really got to get going.

- You got to go?

Maybe another cup?

Maybe another cigarette...

Boy, I'd like to.

No. I really gotta go. I mean...

My wife, she's alone in a motel.

Maybe we could call her up,

come on down here.

Have a cup of coffee

and a couple of cigarettes.

She doesn't smoke.

You know, it's the willpower.

- I see.

- I don't want to start her.

No, you don't want to get her started.

- This is our little thing here.

- Yeah, right.

But we can just sort of...

We can just keep zipping along, you know.

I'll be thinking of you.

- Gotta go.

- I guess so.

- See you soon.

- Yeah, okay.

I wish you could stay a little longer.

- We were just starting to get going here.

- Gotta go.

Okay, Jim.

- Next time.

- Okay, next time.

- You take care.

- You take care, too.

He's not on here, either.

- You're a f***ing moron, you know that?

- Now what?

I can't believe that

you're still smoking those f***ing things.

Vinny, they'll f*** you up.

They'll kill you. Believe me.

Were you put on this f***ing earth

to annoy me?

You said you were gonna quit.

Instead, you spend a fortune...

so those big tobacco companies

can get f***ing rich.

And then you get cancer.

And then the f***ing doctors

and the hospitals, they can get rich.

And the undertakers, too.

All because you want to smoke

like a f***ing moron.

I can't help it. I'm f***ing addicted, okay?

So, coffee and cigarettes?

That's your lunch? That ain't healthy, is it?

You're drinking coffee,

so don't break my f***ing balls.

Vinny, I had lunch already.

So I'm on a diet, okay? Jesus!

Here comes my freaking kid.

Do me a favor.

Don't tell your mother, please.

What the f*** am I talking about?

She smokes like a locomotive, anyway.

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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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