Chinese Coffee
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Director Al Pacino Initial release September 2, 2000 Initial DVD release June 19, 2007 Country United States | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Drama Screenplay Ira Lewis Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Ira Lewis (play), Ira Lewis (screenplay) Cast Al Pacino (Harry Levine), Jerry Orbach (Jake Manheim), Susan Floyd (Joanna), Ellen McElduff (Mavis)Similar movies The Voyeur , Knock Knock , Django Unchained , The Last Days of Disco , Zandalee , Toy Story Tagline There's a fine line between friendship and betrayal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chinese Coffee is a one-act play, written by Ira Lewis.
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Chinese Coffee premiered at the Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway in 1992. Actor Al Pacino was cast as the play's struggling writer, Harry Levine.
The play was later adapted into a 2000 independent film, starring Al Pacino and Jerry Orbach. It was released in New York as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. The film, which was also written by Lewis and directed by Pacino, was introduced by Robert De Niro during the open ceremony. Both the movie and the theater play are chamber plays.
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Film
Al Pacino directed the 2000 film adaptation of Chinese Coffee, in which he also starred opposite Jerry Orbach. Ira Lewis, who wrote the original play, also penned the screenplay for the film.
The film adaptation was released in New York as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. Shot almost exclusively as a one-to-one conversation between the two main characters, it chronicles friendship, love, loss, and humor of daily life. After years of withholding it, Pacino allowed it to be released on June 19, 2007 as a part of a three-movie boxed set called Pacino: An Actor's Vision.
Howard Shore reportedly originally composed the score to the film, before Elmer Bernstein was hired to replace him.
Plot
Harry Levine (Pacino) is a struggling writer (barely) ekeing out a living as a doorman—that is, until he is fired. Desperate for money, he pays a visit to his friend Jake Manheim (Orbach), an arts photographer, to collect an old debt. After Jake says he does not have the money, the two engage in an all-night conversation about their respective art, past and present loves, and the directions their lives are heading. The play and film are set in Greenwich Village circa 1982.
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