Cigarettes & Coffee

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · Starring Kirk Baltz, Philip Baker Hall, Scott Coffey, Kim Gillingham · 1993

In a roadside diner, a handful of strangers, including a quarrelling newlywed couple, a sage old man, a betrayed husband and a hit man, cross paths in loosely linked stories.

Paul Thomas Anderson's early Sundance short, the seed of Hard Eight, already full of his wit and talky tension.

Five people's lives that are curiously intertwined happen to all be at a diner at the same time. An old man (Hall) gives advice to a young man (Baltz) about his cheating wife and best friend. A newlywed couple argues ove

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