64%User score 64 percent
Othello
1995 · Drama
User Score
68 votes
There's a fine line between friendship and betrayal.
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.
Recommendations based on this film
tmdb28039023
September 10, 2022
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 Jake $500 to buy photographic equipment, and Jake said he would read Harry's manuscript. Jake, however, has no money to…
Read the full review on TMDBReviews are written by the TMDB community, not by Chinese Coffee's publisher.
