Chinese Coffee

When Harry Levine, an aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer, is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt.

Cast

Al Pacino

as Harry Levine

Jerry Orbach

as Jake Manheim

Susan Floyd

as Joanna

Ellen McElduff

as Mavis

Michel Moinot

as Maurice

Judette Jones

as Supermarket cashier

Paul J.Q. Lee

as Counterman

Joel Eidelsberg

as Harry's Brother

Maria Gentile

as Sarah / Bellydancer

Christopher Evan Welch

as Hamlet Actor

Reviews

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In Carlito's Way, Al Pacino warns us that “a favor’s gonna kill you faster than a bullet.” In Chinese Coffee (2000) we see what he meant by that. Harry Levine (Pacino) and Jake Manheim (Jerry Orbach), whose friendship seems to illustrate that misery loves company, have exchanged favors; Harry loaned...

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