Chinese Coffee

Chinese Coffee
  • Release date: 2 Sep 2000
  • Release year: 2000
  • Runtime: 99 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: artist, screenplay adapted by author, poverty, art, argument, based on a stage play, actor recreates his stage role, writer, friendship, doorman
Plot:
When aging, unsuccessful Greenwich Village writer Harry Levine is fired from his job as restaurant doorman, he calls on friend and mentor Jake, ostensibly to collect a long-standing debt. Harry takes the opportunity to solicits his opinion on his latest manuscript, a work of semi-fiction based on their longtime friendship. Although he initially denies having read it, Jake later attacks it on aesthetic grounds, and deep-seated feelings of betrayal and jealousy surface, resulting in a traumatic confrontation.
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