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Chinese Coffee (2000)

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User Rating: 7.5/10 (300 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Al Pacino
Writers (WGA):
Ira Lewis (play)
Ira Lewis (screenplay)
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Harry and Jake, two unsuccessful writers, spend a cathartic evening arguing about money, aesthetics, their friendship, and Harry's new manuscript. full summary | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)
User Comments:
A staged play start to finish more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Al Pacino ... Harry Levine

Jerry Orbach ... Jake Manheim

Susan Floyd ... Joanna
Ellen McElduff ... Mavis
Michel Moinot ... Maurice
Judette Jones ... Supermarket cashier

Paul J.Q. Lee ... Counterman
Joel Eidelsberg ... Harry's brother
Maria Gentile ... Sarah / Bellydancer
Christopher Evan Welch ... Hamlet actor

Neal Jones ... Eteocles / Actor in play
Laura Esterman ... Actor in play / Messenger

Hazelle Goodman ... Cafe Dante waitress (as Hazel Goodman)
James Bulleit ... Sgt. Boyle - Undercover cop #1
Mark Scarola ... Undercover cop #2
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language.
Runtime:
99 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
USA:R
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Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Continuity: Near the end of the film Harry is poured a full glass of seltzer with a lime in it by Barney. Although he does not touch it, the glass is empty when he gets up to leave. more
Quotes:
Jake Manheim: I’m exhausted from being exhausted. more

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2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
A staged play start to finish, 23 November 2007
Author: (futures@exis.net) from Ronn Ives/FUTURES Antiques, Norfolk, VA.

A Broadway play turned into a film starring Al Pacino and Jerry Orbach. Think of this script as sort of a "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" between two heterosexual men. In the span of two hours (with flashbacks) layer after layer of their relatively short friendship is peeled away to raw feelings and pseudo-honest expressions until a few truths may have been reached. My only problem with it is in the style of the dialog – much of the time feeling the scripts are invisible but right in front of them. The timing is too "ready" and snappy, the comebacks polished, the exchanges sculpted with care. Had it (they) been relaxed, awkward, slow to respond, overly fast to respond, etc., I could've believed it. As it is, I never lost awareness this was a staged play.

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