Paterson (2016)

A quiet observation of the triumphs and defeats of daily life, along with the poetry evident in its smallest details.

Director:

Jim Jarmusch

Writers:

Jim Jarmusch, William Carlos Williams (poem)

Stars:

Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Nellie

10 wins & 34 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Adam Driver	...	Paterson
Golshifteh Farahani	...	Laura
Nellie	...	Marvin
Rizwan Manji	...	Donny
Dominic Liriano	...	Boy on Bus 1
Jaden Michael	...	Boy on Bus 2
Barry Shabaka Henley	...	Doc
Trev Parham	...	Sam (as Trevor Parham)
Troy T. Parham	...	Dave (as Troy Parham)
Brian McCarthy	...	Jimmy
Frank Harts	...	Luis
Luis Da Silva Jr.	...	Blood in Convertible
Chasten Harmon	...	Marie
William Jackson Harper	...	Everett
Method Man	...	Method Man (as Cliff Smith)

Storyline

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 ...

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Plot Keywords:

poetry | writing a poem | reference to instagram | playing both sides of a game | reading | 

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Taglines:

If you ever left me I'd tear my heart out and never put it back

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for some language

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Page Official site [Japan]

Country:

USA France Germany

Language:

English Italian

Release Date:

17 November 2016 (Germany)

Also Known As:

Патерсон

Filming Locations:

Paterson, New Jersey, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$69,335, 1 January 2017, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$2,141,423, 7 April 2017

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$1,986,483, 20 March 2017

Company Credits

Production Co:

K5 International,Amazon Studios,Inkjet Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

118 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The poems in the film came from Ron Padgett, one of Jim Jarmusch's favorite contemporary poets, who agreed to write the poems for the film and who let Jarmusch use some of his pre-existing poems.

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Goofs

It's made clear that Paterson doesn't own or use a cel phone, but when he has to borrow one, he dials it using his thumbs. A person not used to texting on a cel phone would use his index finger to dial.

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Quotes

[First Lines]
Laura: Mmm.
[pause]
Laura: I had a beautiful dream. We had two little children. Twins.
Paterson: Hmm.
Laura: If we had children, would you like it if they were twins?
Paterson: Mmm... Mmm-hmm. Yeah. Twins. Sure, why not?
[pause]
Paterson: One for each of us.

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Connections

Featured in Film '72: Episode #45.11 (2016)

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Soundtracks

Untitled
Written by Killer Mike (as Michael Santigo Render) and El-P (as Jaime Meline)
Performed by Killer Mike ("R.A.P. Music")
Courtesy of Adult Swim & Cartoon Network Enterprises, Inc.

User Reviews

Poetic afterglow

I am not sure if it is because I appreciate Jim Jarmusch's style or it's because this film is something else, but I absolutely loved it. Throughout the film, I had frisson down the back of my neck. This film made me realize how much I love poetry. I had never realized that I liked poetry, on the contrary, I thought I hated poetry. When the film ended I ran to get my poetry books out and read some of them out loud to myself. This is what cinema is about. It doesn't matter if you like a film or not. If a film makes you feel anything at all, to see from different perspectives and immerse yourself in an imaginary visual and temporal experience that you know it's an illusion from the beginning then the job's done. Jarmusch also always shows how the appreciation of insignificance becomes a soothing state almost like a stoic. I love the feeling of "afterglow" of some films. This film has it. The "afterglow" of every day, ironic, poetic existence.