Caffeine (2006)
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A cozy coffeehouse serves as the setting for director John Cosgrove's over-caffeinated tale of sexual peccadilloes and complicated relationships starring Mena Suvari, Katherine Heigl, and Breckin Meyer. It's a typical lunch hour in London, and The Black Cat Café is fast filling up with… More A cozy coffeehouse serves as the setting for director John Cosgrove's over-caffeinated tale of sexual peccadilloes and complicated relationships starring Mena Suvari, Katherine Heigl, and Breckin Meyer. It's a typical lunch hour in London, and The Black Cat Café is fast filling up with patrons whose sexual lives have become a tangled web of infidelity, kinky idiosyncrasies, and betrayal. Stoned on some of the most potent weed in jolly old England, a neurotic young commitment-phobe attempts to keep his cool when he has an unexpected run-in with his bitter ex-girlfriend. But he's not the only one whose secrets are about to come out today, because after a shy young lady is forced to fend off a boorish blind date whose preconception of her couldn't be more wrong, a possessive boyfriend discovers that his current girlfriend was once a well-known adult film star. Later, after a fragile old lady mistakes a patron for the ex-husband she once found in a compromising position with a kinky prostitute and a high-powered attorney discovers that her husband-to-be likes to dress in ladies' clothes, the manager's boyfriend claims that a recent ménage à trois is perfectly forgivable since it was conducted with a pair of identical twins. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Cosgrove
- Written By
- Dean Craig
- Genres
- Comedy
- In Theaters
- Mar 16, 2007 Wide
- Studio
- First Look Pictures
Critic Reviews
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Lael Loewenstein, Los Angeles Times
About as appetizing as a pot of dishwater coffee.
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Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
The claustrophobic and poorly executed Caffeine is either a play in search of a movie or a movie in search of a play but, either way, it's searching for the wrong thing.
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Emanuel Levy, Variety
A witless examination of relationships and day jobs, Cosgrove's would-be comedy finds little humor in issues of infidelity, heartbreak (and bodily functions), resulting in a film that's hopelessly amateurish and creatively destitute.
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Heather Huntington, ReelzChannel.com
Overall, those are 88 minutes I desperately wish I could get back.
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David Cornelius, DVDTalk.com
It's the movie equivalent of lukewarm coffee and day-old cake.
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Cast
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Mena Suvari
as Vanessa
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Marsha Thomason
as Rachel
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Katherine Heigl
as Laura
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Andrew Lee Potts
as Mike
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Mike Vogel
as Danny
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Breckin Meyer
as Dylan
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Callum Blue
as Charlie
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Mark Pellegrino
as Tom
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Roz Witt
as Lucy
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Sonya Walger
as Gloria
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Orlando Seale
as Mark
- Andrew Abelson
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Mark Dymond
as David
- Jules Leyser
- Daz Crawford
- Neil Dickson
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Bridget Ann Brno
as Naughty Nurse
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Andrew Ableson
as John
- Brooke Mason
- Jennifer Sciole
