No latte please, we're Americans!

Rating: 8/10 (20 June 2004)

Jim Jarmusch stays away too long between films. This is a movie about different points of view on the subject of how we interact with friends and strangers on a number of issues. Mr. Jarmusch knows a thing or two about watching people as the different vignettes unfold on the screen.
I thought the funnier segments were the ones with Steve Buscemi and Cinque and Jolie Lee in Memphis, and the one with Cate Blanchett playing the dual role of two cousins meeting after not having seen each other for a while.

The best stories come last. Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan are just hysterical, as two English actors working in Hollywood who might be related. And of course, the last tale with the amazing Bill Murray is excellent. The invaluable contribution of RZA and GZA to the vignette is amazing.

Pleas Jim, don't stay away too long for the next movie.