Cigarettes & Coffee

Cigarettes & Coffee (1993)

At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut feature Hard Eight (1996).

Date of release
1993-08-03
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (60)
Runtime
24m
Genres
Drama, Crime
Director
Paul Thomas Anderson

Casting

  • Kirk Baltz — Douglas Walker
  • Philip Baker Hall — Sydney
  • Scott Coffey
  • Kim Gillingham
  • Miguel Ferrer — Bill
  • Michael Harris — Steve
  • Jennifer Kaplan
  • Bonnie Fidelman

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