Cigarettes & Coffee (1988)

Directed by

Paul Thomas Anderson

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

24 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 55 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Five strangers in a Las Vegas diner are linked by a single twenty dollar bill. The film shows their brief intersecting conversations over coffee and cigarettes.

conversationalinterconnectedlow-keyobservationalquirkyunderstatedoffbeat

What happens

Cigarettes & Coffee is a 1993 short film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, and starring Philip Baker Hall. It tells the story of five people connected through a $20 bill. Anderson later used it as a basis for his directorial debut film Hard Eight. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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