Hot Coffee

Hot Coffee (2011)

  • 88% of users liked it
    (418 ratings)

Seinfeld mocked it. Letterman ranked it in his top ten list. And more than fifteen years later, its infamy continues. Everyone knows the McDonald's coffee case. It has been routinely cited as an example of how citizens have taken advantage of America's legal system, but is that a fair rendition of… More

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Unrated, 1 hr. 28 min.
Directed By
Susan Saladoff
Genres
Documentary, Special Interest
In Theaters
Jun 24, 2011 Limited
On DVD
Nov 1, 2011
HBO Docs

Critic Reviews

  • Sarah Boslaugh, Playback:stl

    Everyone knows about the woman who spilled coffee on herself and won a $3 million judgment against McDonalds, but it turns out that most of what everyone knows about this case is wrong.

  • Rachel Gordon, Filmcritic.com

    provides a journey through a legal system that is incrementally being subsumed by corporate interests on a daily basis.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Everett J


    We've all heard about the case of a woman suing McDonald's for millions of dollars because she spilled coffee on herself. How much do you really know about it? Well apparently I didn't know much about it, and how severely burned the woman was(it shows pictures). This… More

  • Alec B


    Its the type of documentary that should be shown in classrooms just so younger generations can have, at the very least, a basic understanding of how our legal system works and how easily it can be manipulated (or at least how easily the public can be manipulated to believe just about… More

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