Metacritic Film

Caffeine

Starring Mena Suvari, Breckin Meyer, Marsha Thomason, Mark Pellegrino, Callum Blue, Katherine Heigl, Andrew Lee Potts, and Mike Vogel

MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Steaming Hot Coffee, LLC
Comedy
89 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters March 16, 2007

During one lunchtime at an offbeat London coffee house, the relationships of the quirky staff and several couples are suddenly turned upside down by revelations of supremely embarrassing secrets and idiosyncrasies, generally having to do with their rampaging sexual appetites. (Steaming Hot Coffee, LLC)

WRITTEN BY
Dean Craig

DIRECTED BY
John Cosgrove

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

23 / 100

Critic Reviews

30 LA Weekly
Cosgrove and screenwriter Dean Craig aim for the kind of close-quarters chaos that John Cleese and Connie Booth turned into high comic art on "Fawlty Towers," but Caffeine's roundelay of sophomoric urination, masturbation and pedophilia gags isn't half as funny as the atrocious British accents of the largely American cast.
30 Variety
Nonsense, hysterics and many cuppas spill in Caffeine, an ensembler that serves up a menu's worth of forced and trite situations.
30 Los Angeles Times Lael Loewenstein
Detailing the sexual and romantic misadventures of the employees and patrons at a London cafe, Caffeine is about as appetizing as a pot of dishwater coffee.
20 The 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. What it desperately needs are laughs.

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